simplify: Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works--who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

How true that saying is! And it is on these subjects that I desire you to lay especial stress, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of real use to humanity.


simplify: But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.


simplify: Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: that Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to have his portion there among the people.

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


rate difficulty: and he saith to me, Lo, thou art pregnant, and bearing a son, and now do not drink wine and strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing, for a Nazarite to God is the youth from the womb till the day of his death.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee; for, if I knew with certainty that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, would I not tell it thee?

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


simplify: And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt-offering unto Jehovah: and Samuel cried unto Jehovah for Israel; and Jehovah answered him.

And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.


simplify: Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.

Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.


simplify: Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;


rate difficulty: to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;

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


rate difficulty: And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone.

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


simplify: And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth–el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.


simplify: But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

But I will keep you safe on that day, says the Lord: you will not be given into the hands of the men you are fearing.


simplify: The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body.


rate difficulty: There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.

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


rate difficulty: Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

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


simplify: He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.


simplify: If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,


simplify: the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base;

And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;


rate difficulty: They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: — A crooked and perverted generation!

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


rate difficulty: `And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

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


rate difficulty: Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

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


simplify: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;

Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:


simplify: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.


rate difficulty: and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings,

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


rate difficulty: So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


simplify: It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.


rate difficulty: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?


simplify: And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.


rate difficulty: And he took the letter to the king of Israel, in which the king of Aram had said, See, I have sent my servant Naaman to you to be made well, for he is a leper.

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


simplify: Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God.

Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's and which were kept in the house of God.


rate difficulty: `And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

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


simplify: Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.


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

Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.


simplify: and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.


rate difficulty: And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming <FI>it<Fi> ,


simplify: The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.


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

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


simplify: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

As surely as there is a human body, there is also a spiritual body.


simplify: And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: how strait <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

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


simplify: And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.

And any leather seat on a horse on which the unclean man has been seated will be unclean.


simplify: Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.


rate difficulty: Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.

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


rate difficulty: and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?

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


simplify: For Jehovah hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto this day.

For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.


rate difficulty: Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

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


simplify: a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;


simplify: Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.


simplify: And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal:


simplify: That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.


rate difficulty: If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

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


simplify: And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.


rate difficulty: And the soldiers led him away into the hall, which is Praetorium, and call together the whole band,

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


rate difficulty: And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

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


simplify: If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?


simplify: And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.


rate difficulty: Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.


simplify: And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of Jehovah, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place.


simplify: The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

To an eminent Christian Lady, and to her children, from the officer of the church. I sincerely love you all, and not I only, but also all those who have learned to know the truth.


rate difficulty: And he hath not been willing to hearken to her voice, and is stronger than she, and humbleth her, and lieth with her.

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


simplify: For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

This is why some men seized me in the Temple, and made attempts on my life.


simplify: if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;

If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,


simplify: And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.


simplify: And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.


rate difficulty: And from the front of the gate of the entrance unto the front of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: so that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain.

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


simplify: and all having become of good cheer, themselves also took food,

and the men all felt cheered and had something to eat themselves.


simplify: and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.

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


simplify: Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:

Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;


simplify: And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.


rate difficulty: And they kept that saying, questioning among themselves, what rising from among [the] dead was.

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


rate difficulty: `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

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


simplify: But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:


simplify: And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.


simplify: And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:

And the priest will take the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;


simplify: And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;

Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:


rate difficulty: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

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


simplify: And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.


simplify: Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?


simplify: so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

Therefore, my friends, strive for the gift of preaching, and yet do not forbid speaking in ‘tongues.’


rate difficulty: And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

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


rate difficulty: and thou hast heard what they speak, and afterwards are thy hands strengthened, and thou hast gone down against the camp.' And he goeth down, he and Phurah his young man, unto the extremity of the fifties who <FI>are<Fi> in the camp;

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


simplify: salute Herodion, my kinsman; salute those of the <FI>household<Fi> of Narcissus, who are in the Lord;

to my countryman Herodion; to the Christians in the household of Narcissus;


rate difficulty: Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.

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


rate difficulty: Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her;

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

‘No lie was ever heard on their lips.’ They are beyond reach of blame.


simplify: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?


rate difficulty: And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: That the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people came to him and said, Make clear to us by what authority you do these things and who gave you this authority.

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


simplify: After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

After this, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem (at that time he was stationed with all his army in front of Lachish), to say to Hezekiah and all the men of Judah in Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.


rate difficulty: Egypt, as a flood cometh up, And as rivers the waters shake themselves. And he saith, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.

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


simplify: Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.


rate difficulty: And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

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


rate difficulty: And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

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


rate difficulty: I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.


rate difficulty: He shall not faint nor be in haste, till he have set justice in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.


simplify: Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another.


simplify: And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.


rate difficulty: and had finished their visit; but, when they started to return, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, without their knowing it.

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


simplify: But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.


simplify: And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, andwithan orator, one Tertullus; and they informed the governor against Paul.

And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came with certain of the rulers, and an expert talker, one Tertullus; and they made a statement to Felix against Paul.


rate difficulty: Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

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


rate difficulty: But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong,  By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob  (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),


rate difficulty: how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'

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


simplify: And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.


rate difficulty: And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, `Is this the Son of David?'


simplify: David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,


simplify: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.


rate difficulty: and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!

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


rate difficulty: (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)


simplify: Ye are witnesses of these things.


simplify: For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

For we brought nothing into the world, because we cannot even carry anything out of it.


rate difficulty: and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,


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


simplify: David therefore calleth him Lord, and how is he his son?

David then gives him the name of Lord, so how is it possible for him to be his son?


simplify: And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.


simplify: Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.


rate difficulty: `--so that they believe that Jehovah, God of their fathers, hath appeared unto thee, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.'

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


rate difficulty: if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead.

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


rate difficulty: And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but--virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.


simplify: Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?


simplify: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:


simplify: for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?


simplify: And these things having said--they beholding--he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;

No sooner had Jesus said this than he was caught up before their eyes, and a cloud received him from their sight.


simplify: And David said unto all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and if it be of Jehovah our God, let us send abroad every where unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us;

And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;


simplify: Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth them out of the church.

So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.


simplify: The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.

Those who do business among the peoples make sounds of surprise at you; you have become a thing of fear, you have come to an end for ever.


rate difficulty: When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

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


simplify: They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.


simplify: And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,


simplify: And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

And all the seven had no seed. Last of all the woman herself came to her death.


rate difficulty: And I instructed--I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

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


simplify: And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.

Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.


rate difficulty: So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

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


rate difficulty: And on the Sabbath after, almost all the town came together to give hearing to the word of God.

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


simplify: and Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

And the Lord gave Lachish into the hands of Israel, and on the second day he took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword without mercy, as he had done to Libnah.


rate difficulty: and when it became day, he called near his disciples, and having chosen from them twelve, whom also he named apostles,

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rate difficulty: Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,

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


rate difficulty: testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.


rate difficulty: For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

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


rate difficulty: The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.


rate difficulty: And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.

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


rate difficulty: and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,


rate difficulty: And having passed some time [there], they were let go in peace from the brethren to those who sent them.

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


simplify: But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.


rate difficulty: And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.


simplify: The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.


rate difficulty: A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.


simplify: Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.


simplify: He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.


simplify: but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

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


simplify: Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.


simplify: And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.


rate difficulty: There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.


simplify: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.


rate difficulty: To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden, unto the lower parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God hath delivered Midian, and all the host.

And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.


rate difficulty: And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.


simplify: A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same.


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

Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.


simplify: She that is in Babylon, elect together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Mark my son.

She who is in Babylon, who has a part with you in the purpose of God, sends you her love; and so does my son Mark.


rate difficulty: And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.

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


rate difficulty: praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

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


simplify: And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

And I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let you go without being forced.


rate difficulty: And the ten having heard, began to be much displeased at James and John,


rate difficulty: And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

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


rate difficulty: So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by my glory.

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


rate difficulty: And my bread which I had given thee, the fine flour and the oil and the honey wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savour: thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.

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


simplify: As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.


simplify: Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?


rate difficulty: Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy for thee the field with money, and cause witnesses to testify--and the city hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans!'

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, this good news is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her.”


simplify: `And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;

The king, in anger, sent his troops, put those murderers to death, and set their city on fire.


simplify: For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.


simplify: Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.


simplify: So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!

Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!


rate difficulty: and I give to thee the house of thy lord, and the wives of thy lord, into thy bosom, and I give to thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if little, then I add to thee such and such <FI>things<Fi> .

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

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


rate difficulty: And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end along the way of Hethlon, as one entereth into Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward unto near Hamath — the east and west side [belonging] to him — shall Dan have one [portion].

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.


rate difficulty: And sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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


simplify: But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.


simplify: And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to their voice and make a king for them. Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let every man go back to his town.


rate difficulty: For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.


rate difficulty: But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.


simplify: The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.


simplify: We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

Therefore, as God’s fellow workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving kindness in vain.


simplify: And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;


simplify: If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing: and I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's store-house.


simplify: And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king (for he will not say thee nay), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

Then he said, Will you go to Solomon the king (for he will not say, No, to you) and put before him my request that he will give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife?


rate difficulty: `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name;

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


simplify: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.


rate difficulty: And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

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


simplify: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

Son of man, give a word to the children of your people, and say to them, When I make the sword come on a land, if the people of the land take a man from among their number and make him their watchman:


simplify: To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Is it a light thing in your eyes to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

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


rate difficulty: Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

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


simplify: And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.


rate difficulty: on which they began to grumble at their employer.

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


simplify: because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:


simplify: And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.


rate difficulty: And there were windows to it and to its projections round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth.

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


simplify: Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

A person must not study their own interests, but the interests of others.


simplify: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.


simplify: And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

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


rate difficulty: And the king maketh the silver and the gold in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he made as sycamores that <FI>are<Fi> in the low country, for abundance.

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


simplify: Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.


simplify: And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

The twenty-first Jachin, the twenty-second Gamul,


rate difficulty: and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

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


simplify: And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah your God; ye had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you.

And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.


simplify: Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;


rate difficulty: Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

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


rate difficulty: To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, watch against watch.


simplify: And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

“What is your name?”Jesus asked.   “Legion,” he answered (for many demons had taken possession of him);


simplify: Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to wit, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, took all the rest of the people whom Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had made prisoners, after he had put to death Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the people from Mizpah, that is, the men of war and the women and the children and the unsexed servants, whom he had taken back with him from Gibeon:


rate difficulty: And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.


simplify: Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

On the north side it was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,


rate difficulty: `And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye <FI>are<Fi> , and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt.

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


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

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


simplify: And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.


simplify: This is the first and great commandment.


simplify: And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.


rate difficulty: And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

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


simplify: And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

But I myself will judge the nation, to which they will be enslaved,’ God said, ‘and after that they will leave the country and worship me in this place.’


rate difficulty: My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

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


simplify: Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.


simplify: And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.


rate difficulty: Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.

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


rate difficulty: of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

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


rate difficulty: For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

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


simplify: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint,

Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and never despair.


simplify: And in the going, he came nigh to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven,

While on his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, suddenly a light from the heavens flashed around him.


simplify: He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

“How is it, then,” Jesus replied, “that David, speaking under inspiration, calls him ‘lord,’ in the passage —


simplify: And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?

And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?


rate difficulty: And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.

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


rate difficulty: Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land.

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


simplify: For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.


simplify: And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

And to James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, he gave the second name of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:


rate difficulty: The doom is come unto thee, inhabitant of the land; the time is come, the day is near, — tumult, and not the joyous cry from the mountains.

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


rate difficulty: so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:


rate difficulty: I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

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


simplify: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.


simplify: Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.


rate difficulty: And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.


simplify: And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.

And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.


simplify: And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.


simplify: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.

And there were flames and voices and thunders; and there was a great earth-shock so that never, from the time when men were on the earth, had there been so great an earth-shock, so full of power.


simplify: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

Think of the ravens — they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and yet God feeds them! And how much more precious are you than birds!


rate difficulty: He counteth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood.

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


simplify: Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.


simplify: And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,

So he left, and went to the house of a certain Titius Justus, who had been accustomed to join in the worship of God, and whose house was next door to the synagogue.


simplify: And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.


simplify: Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.

Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?


simplify: And they said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy glory.

And they said to him, Let us be seated, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.


simplify: and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;

and delivered the letter, the reading of which caused great rejoicing by its encouraging contents.


simplify: And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch:

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:


rate difficulty: For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And--I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah unto me: `Go, and thou hast stood in the gate of the sons of the people, by which kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all gates of Jerusalem,

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


simplify: And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.

Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.


simplify: And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.

Then the door-keepers, crying out, gave the news to those inside the king's house.


rate difficulty: He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.

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


rate difficulty: and the messenger putteth forth his hand to Jerusalem to destroy it, and Jehovah repenteth concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying among the people, `Enough, now, cease thy hand;' and the messenger of Jehovah was near the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee, when I bring back the captivity of my people.

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


rate difficulty: Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

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


rate difficulty: (And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

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


simplify: A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!


rate difficulty: men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.


simplify: So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.


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

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.


simplify: And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.


rate difficulty: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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


simplify: And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:

And Moses, hearing this, went down on his face;


rate difficulty: Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.


simplify: If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:


simplify: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.


simplify: And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

“Do not collect more than you have authority to demand,” John answered.


simplify: And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.


simplify: a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.


simplify: This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.


rate difficulty: And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

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


rate difficulty: Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.


rate difficulty: Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me <FI>is<Fi> thy help, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy king now--And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

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


simplify: If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth any one of these things,

If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who does any of these things,


rate difficulty: And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

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


rate difficulty: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben–hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

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


rate difficulty: “Sheathe your sword,” Jesus said, “for all who draw the sword will be put to the sword.


rate difficulty: Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

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


rate difficulty: And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

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


rate difficulty: With the kind Thou shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,

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


simplify: And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.


simplify: Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


simplify: `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

But the father turned to his servants and said ‘Be quick and fetch a robe — the very best — and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet;


simplify: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ’s people, from Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an apostle, and has been set apart to tell God’s good news.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all things are complete.


simplify: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision?


simplify: Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the Lord; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.


simplify: And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,

So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:


rate difficulty: Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet,  Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way;

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


rate difficulty: And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Jehovah their God.

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


simplify: He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.


simplify: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.


rate difficulty: Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.


simplify: And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.


simplify: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

You have heard that it was said — ‘You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’


simplify: They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.


simplify: I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.


simplify: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead people, but of living.”


simplify: and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee a house.

From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.


rate difficulty: And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

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


simplify: and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold;


simplify: An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.


simplify: Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

Therefore I am laying her on a bed of sickness, and bringing great suffering on those who are unfaithful with her, unless they repent and turn from a life like hers.


simplify: And he said unto him, Arise, and go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

And he said to him, Get up, and go on your way; your faith has made you well.


simplify: these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.


rate difficulty: And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts; and they had thirty cities, which are called the villages of Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.


simplify: And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.


rate difficulty: He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, hath opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and strengtheneth them,

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


rate difficulty: These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: All Christ’s people here send you their greetings.

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


simplify: And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.


rate difficulty: and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

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


simplify: And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah.

And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

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


simplify: I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.


rate difficulty: The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

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


simplify: And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab


simplify: So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.


rate difficulty: And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.


rate difficulty: Go not forth hastily to strive, Lestthou know notwhat to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:

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


rate difficulty: And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover;


rate difficulty: And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.

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


simplify: So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.


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

And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.


simplify: in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,


simplify: but now, I say, I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.

But now I go to Jerusalem, taking help for the saints.


simplify: He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.


rate difficulty: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

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


simplify: And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?


rate difficulty: not addicted to drink or brawling, but of a forbearing and peaceable disposition, and not a lover of money;


simplify: Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.


simplify: For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.


simplify: For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

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


simplify: to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;


simplify: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

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


rate difficulty: Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

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


rate difficulty: and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

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


rate difficulty: And now, Lord, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

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


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

The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,


rate difficulty: Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces with him, then they were glad.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.

But Jesus, answering, said, Put up with this, at least. And touching his ear, he made it well.


simplify: even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

even though we were ‘dead’ because of our offenses, gave life to us in giving life to the Christ. (By God’s loving kindness you have been saved.)


rate difficulty: But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:


simplify: Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?


simplify: And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.


simplify: They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.


rate difficulty: We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

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


simplify: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.

Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.


simplify: We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.


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

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


simplify: And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

After he has spent all that he had, there was a severe famine through all that country, and he began to be in actual want.


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

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


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: I have put a yoke of iron on the necks of all these nations, making them servants to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; and they are to be his servants: and in addition I have given him the beasts of the field.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.


simplify: For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected — provided only that it is received thankfully;


rate difficulty: but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.


simplify: and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members;

If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done it, all the others share its joy.


rate difficulty: And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.

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


simplify: But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.


rate difficulty: And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

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