simplify: For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

There is, I tell you, no one born of a woman who is greater than John; and yet the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”


rate difficulty: And one of the four beasts gave to the seven angels seven gold vessels full of the wrath of God, who is living for ever and ever.

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


simplify: then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto Jehovah a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil:

Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: Though complete, and thus many, Yet thus they have been cut off, And he hath passed away. And I afflicted thee, I afflict thee no more.

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


simplify: Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;


simplify: Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.


rate difficulty: thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.

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


simplify: Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.

So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.


simplify: And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.

In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.


simplify: And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.


simplify: Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.

Give my love to Andronicus and Junia, my relations, who were in prison with me, who are noted among the Apostles, and who were in Christ before me.


simplify: Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water <FI>it<Fi> ?

“You hypocrites!”the Master answered him. “Does not everyone of you let your ox or your ass loose from its manger, and take it out to drink, on the Sabbath?


rate difficulty: And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

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


simplify: though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;


simplify: So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.


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

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


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

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


simplify: And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

And they put it to the decision of chance, and the decision was given for Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.


simplify: And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.


simplify: To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

To Titus, my true child in our one faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.


rate difficulty: Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

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


simplify: as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.


simplify: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.


simplify: And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east.


rate difficulty: Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

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


simplify: Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: According to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses, so have the sons of Israel done all the service;

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


simplify: And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’


rate difficulty: And Joab draweth nigh, and the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, to battle against Aram, and they flee from his presence;

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


rate difficulty: Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,


simplify: And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.


rate difficulty: Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

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


simplify: And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

And when the sun has gone down he will be clean; and after that he may take part in the holy food, because it is his bread.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

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


simplify: no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve — never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in the way of a fellow follower of the Lord.


simplify: (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.


rate difficulty: and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house ofGod.


simplify: The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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


rate difficulty: Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

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


rate difficulty: And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

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


simplify: Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.


simplify: For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?


simplify: And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.

And at that day, the bodies of those whom the Lord has put to death will be seen from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: there will be no weeping for them, their bodies will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; they will be like waste on the face of the land.


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

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

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


simplify: The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.


simplify: on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

On the first day of every week each of you should put by what he can afford, so that no collections need be made after I have come.


rate difficulty: let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> near;


simplify: Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.


rate difficulty: and all the assembly make a covenant in the house of God with the king, and he saith to them, `Lo, the son of the king doth reign, as Jehovah spake concerning the sons of David.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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


simplify: For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

For in Christ the Godhead in all its fulness dwells incarnate;


simplify: for John said to Herod--`It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

For John had said to Herod — “You have no right to be living with your brother’s wife.”


simplify: Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.


simplify: For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.


simplify: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.


simplify: And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.


rate difficulty: She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.

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


simplify: Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few <FI>words<Fi> I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted friend (for so I regard him), to encourage you, and to bear my testimony that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.


rate difficulty: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.

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


rate difficulty: the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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


rate difficulty: Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.


simplify: Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

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


simplify: And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.

And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.


simplify: And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.


simplify: And Isaiah is very bold, and saith,  I was found of them that sought me not; I became manifest unto them that asked not of me.

And Isaiah says without fear, Those who were not searching for me made discovery of me; and I was seen by those whose hearts were turned away from me.


rate difficulty: The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.


rate difficulty: but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'

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


rate difficulty: And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

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


simplify: And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. So Jehovah was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.


simplify: And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,


simplify: And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.


rate difficulty: and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.

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


rate difficulty: and the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,

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


rate difficulty: Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm <FI>is on<Fi> the Chaldeans.

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


simplify: And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.


simplify: And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.


simplify: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.


rate difficulty: And they impress a certain one passing by--Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus--that he may bear his cross,

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


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

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


rate difficulty: the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

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


rate difficulty: And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

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


rate difficulty: But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.


rate difficulty: But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.

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


rate difficulty: And the ‘Lord’ is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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


rate difficulty: and he hath gone out, and his servants have come in, and look, and lo, the doors of the upper chamber are bolted, and they say, `He is only covering his feet in the inner chamber of the wall.'

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


rate difficulty: He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.


simplify: And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.


rate difficulty: `And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

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


rate difficulty: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.


simplify: And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.


simplify: And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.

And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.


simplify: And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.


simplify: And after the carrying away to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel; and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel;

And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel;


simplify: But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news,


rate difficulty: (not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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


simplify: Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:


rate difficulty: and I say to you, Ye--ye do possess their ground, and I--I give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, who hath separated you from the peoples.

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


rate difficulty: And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles,

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


rate difficulty: For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?


simplify: Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.


simplify: And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:

And their limit was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-Jair, in Bashan, sixty towns;


simplify: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.


simplify: who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

but, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.


rate difficulty: The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

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


simplify: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.

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


rate difficulty: And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

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


rate difficulty: but bade them farewell, saying, [I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem]; I will return to you again, ifGod will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.


simplify: And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.


simplify: And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.


rate difficulty: and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;

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rate difficulty: AndGod clave the hallow rock which was in Lehi, and water came out of it. And he drank, and his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.


simplify: and they did eat and were filled, and they took up that which was over of broken pieces--seven baskets;

The people had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left.


rate difficulty: Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.


rate difficulty: and all that He hath done to the two kings of the Amorite who <FI>are<Fi> beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who <FI>is<Fi> in Ashtaroth.

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


rate difficulty: For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.


simplify: And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.


simplify: The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

the woman was a foreigner, from Syrian Phoenicia — and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.


simplify: And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.


rate difficulty: On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

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


rate difficulty: There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

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


simplify: And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both the boats so full of fish that they were almost sinking.


simplify: The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.


simplify: and lo, they cried out, saying, `What--to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

Suddenly they shrieked out: “What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before our time?”


rate difficulty: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.


rate difficulty: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken for thy voice: Cause me to hear it.

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


simplify: and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering.


rate difficulty: Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

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


simplify: Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.


simplify: And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.


rate difficulty: O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.

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


simplify: neither will I let thee hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.


simplify: by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

Through these three curses a third of humanity perished — because of the fire, and the smoke, and the sulphur that issued from their mouths;


simplify: but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.


simplify: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.


simplify: And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

And David said to him, Where have you come from? And he said, I have come in flight from the tents of Israel.


rate difficulty: Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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


simplify: For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that wresteth the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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


rate difficulty: Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway side begging.

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


simplify: But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and people have treated him just as they pleased, as scripture says of him.”


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of three days, that the officers went through the camp;

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


simplify: Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,

Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:


simplify: But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.


simplify: Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.


rate difficulty: Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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


simplify: And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.


simplify: And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.


simplify: And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Yes, and the confidence that our union with the Lord enables us to place in you leads us to believe that you are doing, and will do, what we direct you.


simplify: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;


simplify: Who hath declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is right? yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.


rate difficulty: ye, then, coming together at the same place--it is not to eat the Lord's supper;


rate difficulty: But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

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


simplify: And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),

And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),


simplify: Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.


simplify: And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.

And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.


simplify: And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:


simplify: And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

When they got near Jebus the day was far gone; and the servant said to his master, Now let us go from our road into this town of the Jebusites and take our night's rest there.


simplify: and Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor;


simplify: Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,


rate difficulty: Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

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simplify: And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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


rate difficulty: And the courageous of heart among the mighty, Naked doth flee in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah!

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


simplify: I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.


rate difficulty: May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

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


rate difficulty: Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.

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


rate difficulty: Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

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


rate difficulty: As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.


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

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


rate difficulty: If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?


simplify: For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I, at least, did not receive it from any human being, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ.


simplify: Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.

Of Rehabiah; of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.


simplify: having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good people, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers,


simplify: Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink.

Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.


simplify: and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there.

The followers immediately arranged for Paul to go away to the coast, but both Silas and Timothy stayed behind in Beroea.


rate difficulty: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.


simplify: And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:


rate difficulty: And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.


rate difficulty: And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.

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


simplify: And God said, Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.


simplify: Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.


rate difficulty: Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an army with banners?


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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


simplify: Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:


rate difficulty: But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.


simplify: All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall set forth hindmost by their standards.

The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.


rate difficulty: And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

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


simplify: And Jehovah gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.


simplify: And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.


simplify: Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

Be on your guard! If your brother or sister does wrong, rebuke them; but if they repent, forgive them.


simplify: and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

The eyes of all the members of the Council were riveted on Stephen, and they saw his face looking like the face of an angel.


simplify: Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.


simplify: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

... for your goods: they gave polished iron and spices for your goods.


simplify: And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;


simplify: And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.


simplify: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God’s kingdom.


simplify: and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;'

The people kept shouting: “It is the voice of God, and not of a person!”


simplify: Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.


rate difficulty: And the floor of the house he hath overlaid with gold, within and without;

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


simplify: and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'

Get up,”he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”


rate difficulty: And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,


simplify: for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.


simplify: And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts,


rate difficulty: Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

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


simplify: Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.

Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.


simplify: and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

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


simplify: a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God’s judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God’s kingdom, for the sake of which you are now suffering;


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

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


simplify: And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.


rate difficulty: It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.


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

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


simplify: And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.


rate difficulty: `And the second he maketh a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance, and the priest hath made atonement for him, because of his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him.

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


simplify: having known that he hath been subverted who <FI>is<Fi> such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

You may be sure that such a person has forsaken the truth and is in the wrong; they stand self-condemned.


simplify: And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard,

And when a man or a woman has a disease on the head, or in the hair of the chin,


rate difficulty: For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

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


rate difficulty: And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the look of glowing brass, out of the midst of the fire.

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


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

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.


rate difficulty: This is the law of cattle, and of fowl, and of every living soul that moveth in the waters, and of every soul that crawleth on the earth;

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


simplify: And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;


simplify: And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.

And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.


simplify: Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.


rate difficulty: Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

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


simplify: And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.


rate difficulty: I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God.

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


rate difficulty: And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

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rate difficulty: The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites. Atroth-Beth-Joab, and the Hazi-Hammana-hethites, the Zorites;

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rate difficulty: And if, after looking at him, he sees that the mark is increased in his skin, let the priest say that he is unclean; he is a leper.


simplify: 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.

Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.


simplify: The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.


rate difficulty: Paul, apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, andGod [the] Father who raised him from among [the] dead,

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


rate difficulty: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

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simplify: And these in like manner are they that are sown upon the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, straightway receive it with joy;

And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;


simplify: Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.


rate difficulty: The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.


simplify: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.


rate difficulty: To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: —  “These are the words of the Son of God, ‘whose eyes are like flaming fire, and whose feet are like brass’: —


rate difficulty: And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out.


simplify: Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?


simplify: Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.

Now when Jesus saw a great mass of people about him, he gave an order to go to the other side.


simplify: And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?


simplify: But if thou wilt go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.


simplify: But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:

But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;


simplify: The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: `As to the leper in whom <FI>is<Fi> the plague, his garments are rent, and his head is uncovered, and he covereth over the upper lip, and `Unclean! unclean!' he calleth;

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


rate difficulty: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

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


rate difficulty: And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;

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


simplify: Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.


rate difficulty: Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

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rate difficulty: Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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


simplify: But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,


simplify: They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel.

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


simplify: unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,

To this very hour we go hungry, thirsty, and naked; we are beaten; we are homeless;


simplify: And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.

And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.


rate difficulty: As to Michal daughter of Saul, she had no child till the day of her death.


simplify: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.


rate difficulty: And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: I utterly consume all from off the face of the ground, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

“We have been hard at work all night, Sir,” answered Simon, “and have not caught anything, but, at your bidding, I will throw out the nets.”


simplify: And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.


rate difficulty: And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

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


simplify: say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

Then say to them, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am taking the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel who are in his company; and I will put it on the stick of Judah and make them one stick, and they will be one in my hand.


rate difficulty: Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”

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


simplify: And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

Those who have Christian masters should not think less of them because they are also followers of Christ, but on the contrary they should serve them all the better, because those who are to benefit by their good work are dear to them as their fellow Christians.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.


simplify: In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.


simplify: And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed.

And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.


simplify: But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.

Jesus, however, knew what was in the their minds, and said to the man whose hand was withered: “Stand up and come out into the middle.”The man stood up;


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

And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.


rate difficulty: And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel there, with their tents in the order of their tribes: and the spirit of God came on him.

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


simplify: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.


rate difficulty: The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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


simplify: and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.


rate difficulty: Under the arch their wings were straight, one stretched out to another: every one had two wings covering their bodies on this side and two covering their bodies on that side.


rate difficulty: And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

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


rate difficulty: And David taketh again wives in Jerusalem, and David begetteth again sons and daughters;

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


simplify: For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.


simplify: of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;

Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;


rate difficulty: And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place, and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

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


rate difficulty: Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

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


rate difficulty: And all the elders of Israel come in, and the priests lift up the ark,


simplify: He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He isa shield to them that walk in integrity;

He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;


simplify: When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

If a man has on his skin a growth or a mark or a white place, and it becomes the disease of a leper, let him be taken to Aaron the priest, or to one of the priests, his sons;


rate difficulty: And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

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


simplify: Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.

Then the devil left him alone, and angels came and helped him.


rate difficulty: He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.

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simplify: And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.

And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.


simplify: And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

And Saul gave ear to the voice of Jonathan, and said with an oath, By the living Lord, he is not to be put to death.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

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


rate difficulty: to Him <FI>is<Fi> the glory, and the power--to the ages and the ages! Amen.

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


simplify: and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.


rate difficulty: Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.

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


simplify: And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.


simplify: And they were astonished exceedingly, saying unto him, Then who can be saved?

And they were greatly surprised, saying to him, Who then may have salvation?


simplify: That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?


simplify: And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.


rate difficulty: And he put to death the ox and the sheep, which were the peace-offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;

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


simplify: That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that offereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice,

And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,


simplify: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?


simplify: And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.


simplify: And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.


rate difficulty: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.

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


rate difficulty: `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

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


simplify: And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.


simplify: And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve <FI>are<Fi> with him,

Shortly afterwards, Jesus went on a journey through the towns and villages, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve,


rate difficulty: They howl, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! And Moab shall be a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

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


simplify: When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

When Jesus had come down from the hill, great crowds followed him.


rate difficulty: Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

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


simplify: The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: And passed over hath the ferry-boat to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which <FI>is<Fi> good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera hath fallen before the king in his passing over into Jordan,

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


rate difficulty: Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

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


rate difficulty: Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

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


simplify: He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

He answered: “The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man.


rate difficulty: that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which <FI>is<Fi> on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

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


rate difficulty: Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.


rate difficulty: And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: He hath brought back the border of Israel, from the entering in of Hamath unto the sea of the desert, according to the word of Jehovah, God of Israel, that He spake by the hand of His servant Jonah son of Amittai the prophet, who <FI> is<Fi> of Gath-Hepher,

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


rate difficulty: But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.

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


simplify: Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;


simplify: Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.


simplify: And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.


simplify: Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

And let the prophets give their words, but not more than two or three, and let the others be judges of what they say.


rate difficulty: I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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


rate difficulty: Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.


simplify: For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:


rate difficulty: And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

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


simplify: For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.


simplify: and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saith Jehovah.

I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.


simplify: And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,

And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,


rate difficulty: And they were saying among themselves, Who will get the stone rolled away from the door for us?

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


rate difficulty: Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you

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simplify: And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if ye be come to betray me to mine adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.


simplify: Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.


rate difficulty: And going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in their boat stitching up their nets.


simplify: and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come.


rate difficulty: `And the man, the lord of the land, saith unto us, By this I know that ye <FI>are<Fi> right men--one of your brethren leave with me, and <FI>for<Fi> the famine of your houses take ye and go,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the people, who had nothing whatever, go on living in the land of Judah, and gave them vine-gardens and fields at the same time.


simplify: Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.


simplify: And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Then came up one of the teachers of the law who had heard their discussions. Knowing that Jesus had answered them wisely, he asked him this question: “What is the first of all the commandments?”


rate difficulty: For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

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


rate difficulty: And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry — ‘Abba, our Father.’

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


simplify: And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.


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

And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families,


simplify: And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:


simplify: Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.


rate difficulty: And he goeth thence unto the hill of Carmel, and thence he hath turned back to Samaria.

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


simplify: And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him.


rate difficulty: But Jesus rebuked the spirit: “Be silent! Come out from him.”

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


simplify: Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.


simplify: But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

And my God, out of the greatness of his wealth, will, in glory, fully satisfy your every need, through your union with Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.

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


simplify: Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.


rate difficulty: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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


simplify: For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.


simplify: For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:


rate difficulty: Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

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


simplify: Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.


rate difficulty: And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

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


rate difficulty: I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.

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


rate difficulty: and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'


rate difficulty: And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, the middle of the ravine and its border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

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


simplify: Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,

You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:


simplify: And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.


simplify: And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

and went to the prison, and did their best to conciliate them. Then they took them out, and begged them to leave the city.


simplify: And Philip having gone down to a city of Samaria, was preaching to them the Christ,

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