simplify: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

Then give ear in heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again into the land which you gave to their fathers.


rate difficulty: And Samson saith to them, `Though ye do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterwards I cease!'

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


rate difficulty: Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.

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


rate difficulty: For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

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


rate difficulty: the sun’s light failing: and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Jehovah.

So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; — a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, to the years of generations and generations.

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


rate difficulty: Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.


simplify: And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

When they found Jesus, they earnestly implored him to do so. “He deserves the favor from you,” they said,


rate difficulty: And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the host, whose hearts God had touched.


simplify: Then shalt thou prosper, if thou observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; fear not, neither be dismayed.

And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.


rate difficulty: By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:

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


simplify: For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.


rate difficulty: The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.

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


simplify: In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

and is based on the hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began,


simplify: And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.


rate difficulty: Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

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


simplify: And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.


rate difficulty: because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;

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


simplify: Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!

Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.


rate difficulty: Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

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


rate difficulty: And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.


simplify: In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.


simplify: And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered: “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?


rate difficulty: `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.


rate difficulty: In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.

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


simplify: And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.


simplify: Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;

Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;


rate difficulty: Inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad have been rowers to thee, Thy wise men, O Tyre, have been in thee, They <FI>are<Fi> thy pilots.

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


simplify: So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.


simplify: And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face thereof was covered with nettles, And the stone wall thereof was broken down.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.


simplify: and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

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


simplify: And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.


simplify: And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow Jehovah shall do this thing in the land.

And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.


simplify: So Jehovah saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth-aven.

So the Lord made Israel safe that day: and the fight went over to Beth-aven.


rate difficulty: Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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


simplify: But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.


simplify: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Put that message into practice, and do not merely listen to it — deceiving yourselves.


rate difficulty: And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

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


simplify: if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,

If, then, a person has escaped from the pollution of such errors as I have mentioned, they will be like a thing kept for better use, set apart, serviceable to its owner, ready for any good purpose.


rate difficulty: I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

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


rate difficulty: And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.


simplify: And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,


simplify: But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.


simplify: Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he.

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;


rate difficulty: Sons of Adin: six hundred fifty and five.

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


rate difficulty: Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.


simplify: And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.


rate difficulty: But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

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


rate difficulty: and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

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


simplify: And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.


simplify: And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.


rate difficulty: Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah of Hosts, who is planting thee, Hath spoken evil concerning thee, For the evil of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, That they have done to themselves, To provoke Me to anger, to make perfume to Baal.

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


rate difficulty: Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

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


rate difficulty: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifthdayofthe monthElul, in fifty and two days.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.


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

And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.


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

Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?


simplify: For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this — Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.


simplify: And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.

And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.


simplify: And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.


simplify: Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands


simplify: Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?


rate difficulty: And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt at Hazazon-Tamar.

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


simplify: Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

So the wise will say nothing in that time; for it is an evil time.


rate difficulty: And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.

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


rate difficulty: An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.


rate difficulty: When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

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


simplify: And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.


rate difficulty: Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the steward of his house (now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;


simplify: Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.


simplify: Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.


simplify: Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea.

Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.


rate difficulty: For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.


rate difficulty: And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.


rate difficulty: Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?


rate difficulty: And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest.

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


simplify: And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?


rate difficulty: and as it came that Peter entered in, Cornelius having met him, having fallen at <FI>his<Fi> feet, did bow before <FI>him<Fi> ;

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

One day Jesus was at a certain place praying, and, when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him: “Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”


simplify: And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.


simplify: and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: `From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, and unto this day--this three and twentieth year--hath the word of Jehovah been unto me, and I speak unto you, rising early and speaking, and ye have not hearkened;

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


rate difficulty: therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.

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


simplify: Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.


simplify: For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

and you must also rejoice and share my joy.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the firstdayof the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: I planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.


simplify: And he took up his parable, and said,  Alas, who shall live when God doeth this?

Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?


simplify: Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus, and asked: “Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?”


rate difficulty: Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

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


simplify: And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.

And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.


simplify: The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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


simplify: Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:


rate difficulty: Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

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


simplify: And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am Jehovah) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

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


simplify: Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah thy God:

You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:


simplify: The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.


rate difficulty: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.

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


rate difficulty: So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years.


simplify: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.


simplify: The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

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


simplify: But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.


rate difficulty: the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

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


simplify: Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.


rate difficulty: For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.

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


simplify: The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.


rate difficulty: A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.


simplify: The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross.


simplify: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Then you ought to have placed my money in the hands of bankers, and I, on my return, should have received my money, with interest.


simplify: Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing.


simplify: And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into your hands: go forward now to take his land and make it yours.

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


simplify: And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.

Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.


simplify: Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because Jehovah loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do justice and righteousness.

May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.


simplify: Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;


simplify: which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

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


simplify: for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

Wherever a dead body lies, there will the vultures flock.’


simplify: And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.

And Judah came together to make prayer for help from the Lord; from every town of Judah they came to give worship to the Lord.


simplify: Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.


rate difficulty: But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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


rate difficulty: Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? Let them show that their actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom.

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simplify: Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.


simplify: Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.


simplify: And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.


simplify: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.


rate difficulty: And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews;

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rate difficulty: And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

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rate difficulty: And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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simplify: carry no bag, no scrip, nor sandals; and salute no one on the way;

Do not take a purse with you, or a bag, or sandals; and do not stop to greet anyone on your journey.


rate difficulty: Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

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rate difficulty: Gilead beyond the Jordan did tabernacle, And Dan--why doth he sojourn <FI>in<Fi> ships? Asher hath abode at the haven of the seas, And by his creeks doth tabernacle.

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rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

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rate difficulty: Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

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simplify: Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and now I see that it was not half the story; your wisdom and your wealth are much greater than they said.


rate difficulty: If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.


simplify: Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.

How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.


rate difficulty: And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.

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


rate difficulty: Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe it not.

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


simplify: And the trees said unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.


simplify: For many are called, but few are chosen.

For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.


rate difficulty: Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

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rate difficulty: And Gehazi hath passed on before them, and layeth the staff on the face of the youth, and there is no voice, and there is no attention, and he turneth back to meet him, and declareth to him, saying, `The youth hath not awaked.'


simplify: And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.


simplify: And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and the Lord of the place of Death gave up their dead; and they were judged, one by one, each according to his actions.


rate difficulty: And some of those with us went to the sepulchre, and found it so, as the women also had said, but him they saw not.

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


simplify: After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.


rate difficulty: And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

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


simplify: `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

Brothers and sisters, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who worship God, it was to us that the message of this salvation was sent.


simplify: Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;


simplify: For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.


rate difficulty: and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.

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


rate difficulty: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

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


rate difficulty: A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

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rate difficulty: And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.


rate difficulty: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.


rate difficulty: And the bearer of his weapons saith to him, `Do all that <FI>is<Fi> in thy heart; turn for thee; lo, I <FI>am<Fi> with thee, as thine own heart.'

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.


simplify: Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

You are actually witnesses to your ancestors’ acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the prophets, you build tombs for them.


simplify: And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.


simplify: And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.


rate difficulty: Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;


rate difficulty: And now for a little space there hath been favour from Jehovah ourGod, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that ourGod may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

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


rate difficulty: Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

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simplify: Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai, saying:

Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:


simplify: And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna.


rate difficulty: In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.


rate difficulty: And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.

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


simplify: But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had given them orders to go.


simplify: and ye--ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

Fill up the measure of your ancestor’s guilt.


simplify: And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.

And Abijah went out to the fight with an army of men of war, four hundred thousand of his best men; and Jeroboam put his forces in line against him, eight hundred thousand of his best men of war.


simplify: So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.


simplify: and they did all eat, and were filled,


rate difficulty: And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea.

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


simplify: There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.


rate difficulty: And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.


rate difficulty: By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, And by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.


rate difficulty: Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and there began to preach the Christ.


rate difficulty: And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;

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simplify: For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;


rate difficulty: Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

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


simplify: Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reacheth unto thy heart.

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.


simplify: And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.


simplify: If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.


rate difficulty: So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the Lord might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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


rate difficulty: for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it <FI>is<Fi> the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.


simplify: And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.

And the disciples were full of joy and of the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.


simplify: Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.


rate difficulty: When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

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


simplify: And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.


rate difficulty: As to the building that <FI>is<Fi> at the front of the separate place <FI>at<Fi> the corner westward, the breadth <FI>is<Fi> seventy cubits, and the wall of the building five cubits broad all round about, and its length ninety cubits.

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


simplify: For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;


simplify: Hear, mysons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:


rate difficulty: And Joseph commandeth, and they fill their vessels <FI>with<Fi> corn, also to put back the money of each unto his sack, and to give to them provision for the way; and one doth to them so.

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


simplify: Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

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


simplify: Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.


rate difficulty: And when they heard these words, both the priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests were in perplexity as to them, what this would come to.

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


rate difficulty: Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an enemy.

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


rate difficulty: And now proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is timid and afraid, let him go back and turn from mount Gilead. And there went back of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

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


rate difficulty: Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings <FI>are<Fi> burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.


simplify: And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.


rate difficulty: Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.

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


simplify: This is the great and first commandment.


rate difficulty: And the watchman saith, `I see the running of the first as the running of Ahimaaz son of Zadok.' And the king saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> a good man, and with good tidings he cometh.'

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


simplify: And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.


rate difficulty: If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,


simplify: And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

And on the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.


simplify: Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.

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


simplify: having come unto me and stood by <FI>me<Fi> , said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him;

Standing close to me, he said ‘Saul, my brother, recover your sight.’ And then and there I recovered my sight and looked up at him.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.


simplify: so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.


rate difficulty: And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.


rate difficulty: And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

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


simplify: And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

They went out, and fled from the tomb, for they were trembling and bewildered; and they did not say a word to anyone, for they were frightened;


simplify: Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.


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

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


rate difficulty: The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.

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rate difficulty: Then he made the tribe of Benjamin come near by families, and the family of the Matrites was taken: and from them, Saul, the son of Kish, was taken: but when they went in search of him he was nowhere to be seen.

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


rate difficulty: And seven days were fulfilled, after Jehovah had smitten the river.

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


simplify: Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.


rate difficulty: And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

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


simplify: that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,


simplify: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.


rate difficulty: And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

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


simplify: And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:


rate difficulty: And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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


rate difficulty: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.


rate difficulty: I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

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


simplify: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

and with whom all the kings of the earth have had licentious intercourse; while all who live on the earth have been make drunk by the wine of her licentiousness.’


rate difficulty: And all the city was gathered together at the door.


simplify: And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So they went up and down through the earth.


simplify: Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which hath been kept in silence through times eternal,

Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,


simplify: On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:

On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim:


simplify: The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.


simplify: And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way,

Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the cause.


rate difficulty: And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not; for the lords of the Philistines upon deliberation sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul at the peril of our heads.

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


rate difficulty: Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

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


rate difficulty: The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me, that I may dwell.

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


simplify: and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.

and for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink.


rate difficulty: and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in ‘the four corners of the earth — Gog and Magog.’ He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore.

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


simplify: Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.


rate difficulty: Seven weeks shalt thou count: from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks.

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


simplify: And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.

And Jesus was before the ruler, who put a question to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say so.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel flee from the face of Judah, and God giveth them into their hand,

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


simplify: And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

And Saul said to the Kenites, Go away, take yourselves out from among the Amalekites, or destruction will overtake you with them: for you were kind to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So the Kenites went away from among the Amalekites.


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

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


simplify: for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

For at the court of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, so that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions — whether good or worthless.


simplify: Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.


simplify: And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt.

And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.


simplify: For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that, through your prayers and through a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, ‘all this will make for my salvation.’


rate difficulty: My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids <FI>is<Fi> death-shade.

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


simplify: And Gaal spake again and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of the oak of Meonenim.

And Gaal said again, See! people are coming down from the middle of the land, and one band is coming by way of the oak-tree of the Seers.


rate difficulty: And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;


rate difficulty: And by the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof. And let the good will of him that dwelt in the bush Come upon the head of Joseph, Upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

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


rate difficulty: Hear, my beloved brethren: Has notGod chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

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


rate difficulty: `A well--digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.' And from the wilderness <FI>they journeyed<Fi> to Mattanah,

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


simplify: And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:

And straight away, coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens broken open and the Spirit coming down on him as a dove:


simplify: Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

Now the first to take up their heritage in their towns were: Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.


simplify: `And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.


rate difficulty: Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

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


rate difficulty: Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

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


rate difficulty: Remember these things in your teaching.

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


simplify: Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.


rate difficulty: and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so <FI>is<Fi> my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.'

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


simplify: this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

He, I say, in accordance with God’s definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.


rate difficulty: And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.


rate difficulty: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

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


rate difficulty: And the waters have been very very mighty on the earth, and covered are all the high mountains which <FI>are<Fi> under the whole heavens;

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


simplify: The heart knoweth its own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.


rate difficulty: So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

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


rate difficulty: upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked:

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;


rate difficulty: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.


simplify: And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.


rate difficulty: They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him: “Teacher, we know that you are an honest person, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of anyone; for you pay no regard to a person’s position.

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


simplify: in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

By this we know that we love God’s children — when we love God and carry out his commands.


rate difficulty: And I have given thee into the hand of those seeking thy life, And into hands of which thou art afraid, Into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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


simplify: `But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.

But, if it is by the help of the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God must already be upon you.


simplify: And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?


simplify: for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.


simplify: Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:

The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:


simplify: and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.'

when his mother spoke up: “No, he is to be called John.”


simplify: Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

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


simplify: And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.


rate difficulty: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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


simplify: These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred.


rate difficulty: and thou hast slaughtered the ram, and hast taken of its blood, and hast put on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot, and hast sprinkled the blood on the altar round about;

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


simplify: and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.


rate difficulty: And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

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


rate difficulty: And as the days were multiplied, Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to his sheep-shearers, to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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


simplify: And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting;


simplify: And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.


rate difficulty: And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.

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


simplify: And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;


rate difficulty: The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz; the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, brother of Saul's father.


rate difficulty: Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

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


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.


rate difficulty: And Ahaz took the silver and the gold that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it [as] a present to the king of Assyria.

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


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

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


simplify: each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.


simplify: But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they come; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

But a small number of them I will keep from the sword, from the need of food, and from disease, so that they may make clear all their disgusting ways among the nations where they come; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.


simplify: And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.


rate difficulty: Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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


simplify: For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?


rate difficulty: And Saul said, Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings. And he offered up the burnt-offering.

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


simplify: And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

And the ox of the sin-offering and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was taken in to make the holy place free from sin, are to be taken away outside the tent-circle and their skins and their flesh and their waste are to be burned with fire.


simplify: Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,


simplify: Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.


simplify: And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.


simplify: My wordsshall utterthe uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.


rate difficulty: And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill.


rate difficulty: In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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


rate difficulty: Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

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


simplify: Now therefore command thou that they cut me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that knoweth how to cut timber like unto the Sidonians.

So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.


simplify: Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.

Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.


simplify: And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.


rate difficulty: And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessedare ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

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


rate difficulty: Ardent lips, and a wicked heart, are [as] an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

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


simplify: Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.


rate difficulty: Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest, Because of the oppressing sword, Each unto his people--they turn, And each to his land--they flee.

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


simplify: For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.


rate difficulty: All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

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


rate difficulty: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Samaria;

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


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


rate difficulty: The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,


simplify: The chief captain, then, indeed, let the young man go, having charged <FI>him<Fi> to tell no one, `that these things thou didst shew unto me;'

The commanding officer then dismissed the lad, cautioning him not to mention to anybody that he had given him that information.


rate difficulty: but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!

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


simplify: If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good that which was torn.

But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.


rate difficulty: And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.

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


rate difficulty: Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

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


rate difficulty: and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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


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

And when they were getting the young ass, the owners of it said to them, Why are you taking the young ass?


simplify: Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;


rate difficulty: And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

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


rate difficulty: And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.


simplify: And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

And on the third day I will send arrows from my bow against its side as if at a mark.


rate difficulty: Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.


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

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


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

And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.


simplify: And their border was unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem


rate difficulty: For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.

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


simplify: Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

Cush and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war, hanging up their body-covers and head-dresses of war in you: they gave you your glory.


rate difficulty: And I, behold, I appoint thee this day as a strong city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land; against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

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


simplify: For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

for it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.


rate difficulty: and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'

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


simplify: And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.

And the watchman gave news of it to the king. And the king said, If he is coming by himself, then he has news. And the man was travelling quickly, and came near.


simplify: Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.


rate difficulty: For thou, myGod, hast revealed to thy servant that thou wilt build him a house; therefore hath thy servant found [in his heart] to pray before thee.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.


simplify: And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;

And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house.


rate difficulty: I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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


rate difficulty: And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

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


simplify: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Then passion conceives and gives birth to sin, and sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth death.


rate difficulty: And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,

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


simplify: For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

For a person who has laid the law, as a whole, to heart, but has failed in one particular, is accountable for breaking all its provisions.


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


rate difficulty: preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

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


simplify: for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.


rate difficulty: Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

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


simplify: And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.


simplify: But the Lord answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things:

But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:


simplify: And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet--one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil--Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Pass over before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel, and thy rod with which thou hast smitten the River take in thy hand, and thou hast gone:

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.


simplify: And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.


simplify: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.