simplify: He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.

He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.


simplify: But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost;

But I will be at Ephesus till Pentecost;


rate difficulty: And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

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


simplify: Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

Give my greeting to everyone of the people of Christ Jesus. The Lord's followers who are with me send your their greetings.


rate difficulty: By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

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


rate difficulty: When we had torn ourselves away and had set sail, we ran before the wind to Cos; the next day we came to Rhodes, and from there to Patara,

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do ye know that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we keep quiet without taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria?

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


rate difficulty: Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

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


simplify: But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.


rate difficulty: And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.

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


rate difficulty: If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.


rate difficulty: and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

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


simplify: And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing,

While charges were being brought against him by the chief priests and councillors, Jesus made no reply.


rate difficulty: And looking round on all of them, he said to him, Put out your hand. And he did so: and his hand was made well.


rate difficulty: And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.


simplify: And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,


rate difficulty: Hiram king of Tyre hath assisted Solomon with cedar-trees, and with fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then doth king Solomon give to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

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


simplify: And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?


rate difficulty: His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

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


simplify: Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.


simplify: and they bring to him a deaf, stuttering man, and they call on him that he may put the hand on him.

Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and almost dumb, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.


simplify: but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;


rate difficulty: And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.

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


simplify: For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.


simplify: And the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.

So the king said to Shimei, You will not be put to death. And the king gave him his oath.


rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given;

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


rate difficulty: thus doth God to Abner, and thus He doth add to him, surely as Jehovah hath sworn to David--surely so I do to him:

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


simplify: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to you — Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names.


rate difficulty: Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

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


simplify: But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

But the people were moved by the chief priests to make him let Barabbas go free.


simplify: For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

We want you, friends, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.


rate difficulty: And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

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


rate difficulty: For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

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


simplify: Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Its brilliance was like a precious stone, like a jasper, transparent as crystal.


simplify: Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.


rate difficulty: Art thou not seeing what they are doing In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?


rate difficulty: Then the king put out the rod of gold to Esther, and she got up before the king.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast set the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod--stones of memorial to the sons of Israel--and Aaron hath borne their names before Jehovah, on his two shoulders, for a memorial.

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


simplify: He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, Andhe that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.

He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.


simplify: Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.


rate difficulty: And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

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


simplify: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.


simplify: And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.


rate difficulty: But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.


rate difficulty: `Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

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


rate difficulty: Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.


simplify: And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai and Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.


rate difficulty: So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

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


rate difficulty: and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver which he shall take away as far as the kidneys;

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


simplify: All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.


rate difficulty: In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

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


simplify: But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.


rate difficulty: All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.


rate difficulty: And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.


simplify: For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.


rate difficulty: `And I--I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee.

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


rate difficulty: lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah's want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;

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


rate difficulty: and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;


rate difficulty: Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

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


simplify: There are three things which are stately in their march, Yea, four which are stately in going:

There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:


simplify: Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents.

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.


rate difficulty: And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.


simplify: shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'

“Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”


simplify: And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.

And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.


rate difficulty: I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

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


simplify: what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.

Well now, as they are certain to hear of your arrival, do what we are going to suggest.


rate difficulty: and Jacob declareth to Rachel that he <FI>is<Fi> her father's brother, and that he <FI>is<Fi> Rebekah's son, and she runneth and declareth to her father.

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


simplify: For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.


rate difficulty: I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill <FI>with<Fi> arguments.

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


rate difficulty: And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;

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


simplify: On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben:

On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben:


simplify: Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.

I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.


rate difficulty: When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.


simplify: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint officers of the church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.


simplify: I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.


simplify: God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?


simplify: Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.


simplify: And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.


simplify: and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

And Jesus answered: “I tell you, this very day you will be with me in Paradise.”


rate difficulty: At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.


simplify: No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.


simplify: Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,


rate difficulty: And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.

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


simplify: They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.


simplify: that frustrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:


simplify: But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:


rate difficulty: And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp:

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


simplify: And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire by a perpetual statute.

And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.


simplify: So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.


rate difficulty: Then Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples: “How hard it will be for people of wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”


rate difficulty: At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill.

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


rate difficulty: Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for ornament.

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


rate difficulty: Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:


rate difficulty: They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: On his knocking at the door in the gate, a maidservant, named Rhoda, came to answer it.


simplify: And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh–gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.


simplify: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.


rate difficulty: Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, tookmen:

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


rate difficulty: ‘But, Father Abraham,’ he urged, ‘if some one from the dead were to go to them, they would repent.’


simplify: `And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

But to what will I compare the present generation? It is like little children sitting in the market-places and calling out to their playmates —


rate difficulty: Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

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


simplify: and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God’s will is — all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.


simplify: Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah.

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


simplify: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

Such people are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ!


rate difficulty: And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

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


simplify: I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.

I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.


simplify: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

For the loving kindness of God has been revealed, bringing salvation for all;


simplify: and what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.'

And what I say to you I say to all — Watch!”


rate difficulty: It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.


rate difficulty: And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

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


simplify: Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.


simplify: And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.

It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines have come, and rush into the valley of Rephaim,

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


rate difficulty: And I said unto you, Be not afraid, neither fear them;

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


simplify: And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.


rate difficulty: the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,


rate difficulty: What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And it is declared to David that which Rizpah daughter of Aiah, concubine of Saul, hath done,

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


simplify: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:


rate difficulty: and I bring them in unto the ground which I have sworn to their fathers--flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned unto other gods, and they have served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant.

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


simplify: And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.


simplify: And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.


rate difficulty: One person’s faith permits of their eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

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


simplify: I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.


rate difficulty: For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold

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


simplify: Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?


simplify: And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind <FI>is<Fi> the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself: “Had this man been ‘The prophet,’ he would have known who, and what sort of woman, this is who is touching him, and that she is an outcast.”


simplify: and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,

In the same town there was a widow who went to him again and again, and said ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’


simplify: Better is open rebuke  Than love that is hidden.

Better is open protest than love kept secret.


rate difficulty: And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

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


simplify: And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kiriath-arba and the towns thereof, and in Dibon and the towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel and the villages thereof,

And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba and its daughter-towns, and in Dibon and its daughter-towns, and in Jekabzeel and its daughter-towns,


rate difficulty: (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

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


simplify: For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.


simplify: Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.


simplify: Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.


rate difficulty: gather the people, hallow the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride from her closet.

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


rate difficulty: and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,

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


rate difficulty: Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices, Every third year your tithes.

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


simplify: And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.


rate difficulty: and Israel sendeth messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me pass over, I pray thee, through thy land, and the king of Edom hearkened not; and also unto the king of Moab hath <FI>Israel<Fi>  sent, and he hath not been willing; and Israel abideth in Kadesh,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.


simplify: For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

For at the resurrection there is no marrying or being married, but all who rise are as angels in heaven.


simplify: The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.


simplify: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?


rate difficulty: and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

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


simplify: And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ;

My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be good for them to remain as I am myself.


simplify: that they may be judged--all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

so that sentence may be passed on all those who refuse to believe the truth, but delight in wickedness.


rate difficulty: And they encamp by the Jordan from Beth-Jeshimoth, unto Abel-Shittim, in the plains of Moab.

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


rate difficulty: `And to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite thou dost do kindness, and they have been among those eating at thy table, for so they drew near unto me in my fleeing from the face of Absalom thy brother.

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


simplify: Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.


rate difficulty: And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which thou trustest?

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


rate difficulty: But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among [the] dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

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


simplify: The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.

The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.


simplify: And the thing became known to Mordecai, who showed it unto Esther the queen; and Esther told the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.

And Mordecai, having knowledge of their purpose, sent word of it to Esther the queen; and Esther gave the news to the king in Mordecai's name.


simplify: Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.


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

And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.


rate difficulty: And Paul called unto him one of the centurions, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain; for he hath something to tell him.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.

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


rate difficulty: And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the battle, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.

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


simplify: Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

And Shuppim and Huppim. The sons of Dan, Hushim his son, one.


simplify: And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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


simplify: For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For we know that if our tent — that earthly body which is now our home — is taken down, we have a house of God’s building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in heaven.


simplify: then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.


simplify: And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

And all flesh will see the salvation of God.


simplify: And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said, What wouldest thou?

Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?


simplify: And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, What suppose ye that I am? I am not he. But behold, there cometh one after me the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.

And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.


simplify: As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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


rate difficulty: wherefore? because--not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

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


rate difficulty: An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed.

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


rate difficulty: And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

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


simplify: There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.


simplify: Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

But Paul and Barnabas kept on in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of God, with a number of others.


rate difficulty: And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

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


rate difficulty: And thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their threshing Gilead with sharp-pointed irons,

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


simplify: and if I ask you, ye will not answer.

And if I put a question to you, you will not give an answer.


rate difficulty: and her father hath heard her vow, and her bond which she hath bound on her soul, and her father hath kept silent at her, then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

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


simplify: And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.

So Jesus rose and followed him, and his disciples went also.


rate difficulty: Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the fool to the wise of heart.

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


simplify: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

There, a Canaanite woman of that district came out and began calling to Jesus: “Take pity on me, Master, Son of David; my daughter is grievously possessed by a demon.”


simplify: And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates;

Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:


simplify: Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth–ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.


simplify: The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?


rate difficulty: and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.


simplify: Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

So Joshua sent for the twelve men, whom he had ready, one man out of every tribe of the children of Israel,


rate difficulty: and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

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


simplify: Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.


rate difficulty: I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.

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


simplify: And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

And he went on his way, and made public in the country of Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him: and all men were full of wonder.


simplify: Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.


rate difficulty: That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.

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


simplify: and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and Jehovah not have done [it]?

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


rate difficulty: and the candlesticks, five on the right, and five on the left, before the oracle, of refined gold, and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold,

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


simplify: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:


simplify: Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.


simplify: And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for ‘love throws a veil over countless sins.’


rate difficulty: Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart <FI>is<Fi> My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

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


simplify: till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,

down to that day on which he was taken up to heaven, after he had, by the help of the Holy Spirit, given instructions to the apostles whom he had chosen.


simplify: The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.

The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.


simplify: But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

But the supporters of Omri overcame those who were on the side of Tibni, the son of Ginath; and death came to Tibni and to his brother Joram at that time: and Omri became king in the place of Tibni.


simplify: And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

And he could not work any miracle there, beyond placing his hands on a few infirm persons, and curing them;


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

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


rate difficulty: Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

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


simplify: And Manasseh did not drive outthe inhabitants ofBeth-shean and its towns, norofTaanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.


simplify: And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,

Moved by the power of the Spirit, Jesus returned to Galilee. Reports about him spread through all that neighborhood;


simplify: My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:


simplify: Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.


rate difficulty: Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

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


simplify: Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.


simplify: I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.


rate difficulty: Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, andPethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

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


simplify: And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.


simplify: And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the Lord.

And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about.

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


rate difficulty: In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

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


rate difficulty: No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;

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


rate difficulty: And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah’s house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.


rate difficulty: But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.


rate difficulty: But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.


rate difficulty: For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

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


simplify: The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;


simplify: And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the chief priests and teachers of the law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leaders of the people.


rate difficulty: And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.


simplify: And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

And they, too, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in; for God has it in his power to graft them in again.


simplify: These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number.


simplify: What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.


rate difficulty: Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!

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


simplify: And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,


simplify: And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:


rate difficulty: apart from the heads of the officers of Solomon, who <FI>are<Fi> over the work, three thousand and three hundred, those ruling over the people who are working in the business.

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


simplify: But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,


simplify: And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.


rate difficulty: And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in its produce;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

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


rate difficulty: For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh [corn] in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

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


simplify: Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.


rate difficulty: This is the way by which to know the inspiration of God — All inspiration that acknowledges Jesus Christ as come in our human nature is from God;

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


simplify: and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer, and to the delivery of the message.”


rate difficulty: And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.

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


simplify: And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.


rate difficulty: If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

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


rate difficulty: Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

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


simplify: Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.


rate difficulty: And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there who had his hand withered.


rate difficulty: But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

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


simplify: For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.


simplify: And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.


rate difficulty: Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.


simplify: Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

of two women grinding with the hand-mill one will be taken and one left.


simplify: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.


rate difficulty: For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”

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


rate difficulty: whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

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


simplify: For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;


rate difficulty: After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired Hashabiah, the chief of the half district of Keilah, for his district.

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


simplify: Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.


simplify: By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,

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


simplify: Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

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


rate difficulty: and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.

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


rate difficulty: Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.

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


simplify: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

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


simplify: Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.


simplify: And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.


simplify: Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.


simplify: Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.


rate difficulty: And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.

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


rate difficulty: Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

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


rate difficulty: For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

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


rate difficulty: Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.


simplify: making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.

And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

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


simplify: Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.


rate difficulty: He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.

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


rate difficulty: And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

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


simplify: Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?


simplify: Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.


simplify: But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

So Peter began to relate the facts to them as they had occurred.


simplify: And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.


simplify: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

but we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.


simplify: But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,


rate difficulty: To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

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


simplify: And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

And after seven days more, he sent the dove out again, but she did not come back to him.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

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


rate difficulty: In that day doth the Lord turn aside The beauty of the tinkling ornaments, And of the embroidered works, And of the round tires like moons,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.


simplify: None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.


rate difficulty: Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

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


simplify: And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;


rate difficulty: There was, however, a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, sold some property,

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


simplify: And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.


rate difficulty: But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

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


rate difficulty: And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

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


simplify: And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah.

And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.


simplify: Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

Do not receive a charge against an officer of the church, unless it is supported by two or three witnesses;


simplify: Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia send you their greetings, and so do the rest of the Lord's followers.


simplify: And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spake, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.


rate difficulty: and, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

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


simplify: Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.


simplify: let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?


simplify: And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him: “When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers or sisters, or your relations, or rich neighbors, because they might invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.


rate difficulty: And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.


simplify: And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.

Then they all rose in a body and led Jesus before Pilate.


rate difficulty: In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.

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


simplify: Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.


simplify: And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thyGod, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them,

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


simplify: And he presented the people’s oblation, and took the goat of the sin-offering which was for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

And he made an offering for the people and took the goat of the sin-offering for the people and put it to death, offering it for sin, in the same way as the first.


simplify: The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.


rate difficulty: In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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


simplify: But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

But David was loved by all Israel and Judah, for he went out and came in before them.


rate difficulty: The word of Jehovah that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

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


rate difficulty: Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.


rate difficulty: But if I say thus to the youth: Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, — go thy way; for Jehovah sends thee away.

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


simplify: but to us did God reveal <FI>them<Fi> through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

Yet to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit fathoms all things, even the inmost depths of God’s being.


simplify: And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.

So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come in full state and had entered the Audience Chamber, with the superior officers and the principal people of the city, by the order of Festus Paul was brought before them.


simplify: These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.

These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.


rate difficulty: So Samuel went back after Saul, and Saul gave worship to the Lord.


simplify: and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid <FI>his<Fi> hands on him, healed him;

It happened that the father of Publius was lying ill of fever and dysentery. So Paul went to see him; and, after praying, he placed his hands on him and cured him.


rate difficulty: Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.


simplify: And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.


simplify: Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

Of the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.


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

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


simplify: They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.


rate difficulty: And he called his name Noah, saying, This [one] shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

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


simplify: but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.


rate difficulty: And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.


simplify: But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.

As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.


simplify: And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus: “Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?”


simplify: For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.

For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.


simplify: that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.


rate difficulty: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

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


simplify: And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.


rate difficulty: `And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou dost speak, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the golden altar for the incense before the ark of the testimony; and hang up the curtain of the entrance to the tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

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


rate difficulty: The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.


rate difficulty: Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth.

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


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

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


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


simplify: and Jesus answering said, `Suffer ye thus far,' and having touched his ear, he healed him.

on which Jesus said: “Let me at least do this”; and, touching his ear, he healed the wound.


rate difficulty: For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

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


rate difficulty: So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.

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


rate difficulty: And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

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


simplify: And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

But they said nothing. And he made him well and sent him away.


simplify: for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?


rate difficulty: Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;

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


rate difficulty: Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.


simplify: and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;'

Again, it is evident that no one is pronounced righteous before God through law, for we read —  ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’


simplify: Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,


simplify: Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.


simplify: Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.


simplify: unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against <FI> him<Fi> .

My answer to them was, that it was not the practice of Romans to give up anyone to their accusers until the accused had met them face to face, and had also had an opportunity of answering the charges brought against them.


rate difficulty: Shammah the Ararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,

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


simplify: And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.


rate difficulty: And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

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


simplify: And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the stronghold.

And David gave Saul his oath. And Saul went back to his house; but David and his men went up to their safe place.


rate difficulty: And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

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


rate difficulty: And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, a tumultuous noise, as the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings;

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


rate difficulty: Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.

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


rate difficulty: and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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


rate difficulty: What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.


simplify: And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourthmonth, in the fifthdayof the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

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


simplify: So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.

So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.


simplify: Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them: and they were sore distressed.

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.


rate difficulty: And when he had been there three months, because the Jews had made a secret design against him when he was about to take ship for Syria, he made a decision to go back through Macedonia.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.


rate difficulty: Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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


simplify: She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.


simplify: And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.


rate difficulty: and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

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


rate difficulty: One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.

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


simplify: And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.


simplify: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.


simplify: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

‘Salt is good, but, if the salt should lose its saltiness, what will you use to season it?    ‘You must have salt in yourselves, and live at peace with one another.”


simplify: And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor:


simplify: These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.


simplify: Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

The person who hates another is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life within them.


simplify: And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother’s house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:


simplify: They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.


simplify: And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,


rate difficulty: And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

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


simplify: Then Peter answering said to him, `Lo, we did leave all, and follow thee, what then shall we have?'

“But we — we left everything, and followed you; what, then, will we have?”


simplify: Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:


rate difficulty: And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

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


simplify: For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.