simplify: Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.'

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


simplify: Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.


simplify: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Teach that the older men should be temperate, serious, and discreet; strong in faith, love, and endurance.


simplify: But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.


rate difficulty: Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

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


rate difficulty: But as for Apollos, the brother, I had a great desire for him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not his pleasure to come now; but he will come when he has a chance.

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


rate difficulty: For, [as] Jehovah liveth, who has saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall certainly die. And no one answered him among all the people.

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


simplify: And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.


simplify: For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.


rate difficulty: Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

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


rate difficulty: But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

“It was owing to the hardness of your hearts,”said Jesus, “that Moses gave you this direction;


rate difficulty: You snakes and children of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

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


simplify: And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Divine unto me, I pray thee, by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.

So Saul, putting on other clothing, so that he might not be seen to be the king, took two men with him and went to the woman by night; and he said, Now, with the help of the spirit which you have, make the person whose name I will give you come up.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, evil is going out from nation to nation, and a great storm will come up from the inmost parts of the earth.


rate difficulty: Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

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


simplify: There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.


rate difficulty: But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may not believe and be saved.


simplify: and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.'

But the disciples began talking among themselves about their having brought no bread.


rate difficulty: For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord.

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


simplify: Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.


rate difficulty: Of the priests: Jedaiah [the son of] Joiarib, Jachin,


rate difficulty: And the king maketh a great throne of ivory, and overlayeth it with refined gold;

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


simplify: Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?


rate difficulty: Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

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


simplify: But Herod, when he heard thereof, said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen.

But Herod, when he had news of it, said, John, whom I put to death, has come back from the dead.


simplify: And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.

And there came before them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

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


rate difficulty: Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

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


simplify: And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.


simplify: Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.


simplify: And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

And I will make you go under the rod and will make you small in number:


rate difficulty: Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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


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

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


simplify: For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.


simplify: and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

But Jesus said: “Leave the dead to bury their dead; but go yourself and carry far and wide the news of the kingdom of God.”


rate difficulty: And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and have dwelt there unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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


simplify: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.


simplify: I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.


simplify: And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.


rate difficulty: Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.


rate difficulty: For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us,

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


rate difficulty: And he ‘himself carried our sins’ in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. ‘His bruising was your healing.’

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


simplify: That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place.”


simplify: For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,


simplify: And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.


rate difficulty: as they were sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.


rate difficulty: And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:


rate difficulty: Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

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


rate difficulty: And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

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


simplify: In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.

In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.


simplify: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.


rate difficulty: And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

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


simplify: They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark, and then the flood came and destroyed them all.


rate difficulty: Neither let the foreigner, that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

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


rate difficulty: Kings came--they fought; Then fought kings of Canaan, In Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; Gain of money they took not!


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.


rate difficulty: For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):

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


rate difficulty: And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:


rate difficulty: What <FI>is<Fi> man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

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


rate difficulty: Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and, to test Jesus, requested him to show them some sign from the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: In like manner also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

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


rate difficulty: But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

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


rate difficulty: Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

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


rate difficulty: When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.

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


simplify: For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.


rate difficulty: Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?


simplify: And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel journey and come in unto their cities on the third day--and their cities <FI>are<Fi> Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-Jearim--

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


simplify: Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:


simplify: And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear of the servants of the Chaldaeans: go on living in the land, and become the servants of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.


simplify: All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.

All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.


rate difficulty: Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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


simplify: For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:


rate difficulty: and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put <FI>them<Fi> unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put <FI>them<Fi> on the bar,

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


rate difficulty: And everything, whatever ye may do in word or in deed, [do] all things in [the] name of [the] Lord Jesus, giving thanks toGod the Father by him.

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


simplify: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

“Even if I must die with you,” Peter exclaimed, “I will never disown you!” All the disciples spoke in the same way.


simplify: Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.


rate difficulty: ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who <FI>are<Fi> round about you;

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


simplify: And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

And even demons came out from many people, screaming ‘You are the Son of God.’ Jesus rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.


simplify: And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

Then he went up and touched the bier, and the bearers stopped; and Jesus said: “Young man, I am speaking to you — Rise!”


rate difficulty: Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And if the priest look on the sore of the scall, and behold, it is not in sight deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the sore of the scall seven days.


simplify: And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara:

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


simplify: Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;


rate difficulty: Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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


simplify: Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.


rate difficulty: And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?

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


rate difficulty: But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.


simplify: Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?


rate difficulty: So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

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


simplify: that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.


rate difficulty: The watchmen that go about the city found me: — Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

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


rate difficulty: By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

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


rate difficulty: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.


simplify: The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ--undecayingly! Amen.

May God’s blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.


simplify: And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns.

And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.


simplify: in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father;

It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father’s house;


simplify: For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.


simplify: for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

for it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and were all imbued with one Spirit.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

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


simplify: The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.


simplify: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.


simplify: And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,


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

The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.


rate difficulty: And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.


simplify: And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together and were praying.

And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer.


rate difficulty: and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.


rate difficulty: But ye have forsaken me, and served othergods; therefore I will save you no more.

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


rate difficulty: testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towardsGod, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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


rate difficulty: And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

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


rate difficulty: He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies [the] assembly.

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


rate difficulty: The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

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


rate difficulty: and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.

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


rate difficulty: After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.

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


simplify: The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;


simplify: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.


rate difficulty: and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,


simplify: `For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!


simplify: Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.


simplify: And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death.


rate difficulty: `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer <FI>is<Fi> nigh,

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


simplify: Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything to the honor of God.


rate difficulty: `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain <FI>it<Fi> , and bear fruit in continuance.


rate difficulty: besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

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


simplify: and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,

and the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.


rate difficulty: The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

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


rate difficulty: Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

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


rate difficulty: Ye know that after two days the passover takes place, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified.

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


simplify: And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?


simplify: The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,


simplify: Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.


rate difficulty: and he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

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


simplify: and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea.


simplify: Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

Helez the Paltite, Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,


simplify: This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

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


rate difficulty: But they went on crying out loudly, Let him be put to death on the cross. And they had their way.

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


rate difficulty: If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve othergods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


simplify: brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth--

For I, friends, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do — forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,


rate difficulty: of Jashub the family of the Jashubite; of Shimron the family of the Shimronite.

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


simplify: and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

Nor did he spare the world of old; though he preserved Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought a flood on the godless world.


rate difficulty: but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

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


rate difficulty: Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

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


simplify: Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the brazier burning before him.

Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.


rate difficulty: Then the king commanded Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

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


simplify: Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?


rate difficulty: But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief men of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in thy hand, that we should give bread to thine army?

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


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

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.


rate difficulty: For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] asGod's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

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


simplify: Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Saying, The Son of man will undergo much and be put on one side by the rulers and the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and be put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.


simplify: The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,


simplify: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


rate difficulty: The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.


rate difficulty: heads of Judah, and heads of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land those passing through between the pieces of the calf--

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


rate difficulty: I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,

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


rate difficulty: And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

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


simplify: Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.


simplify: And I will cast thee forth into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.

And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven.


rate difficulty: The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believedGod may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

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


rate difficulty: And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according to your lewdness.

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


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.


simplify: And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:

And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan;


rate difficulty: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

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


simplify: The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yea, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, How may Ahab, king of Israel, be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

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


rate difficulty: and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;


simplify: `And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

Remain at that same house, and eat and drink whatever they offer you; for the worker is worth their wages. Do not keep changing from one house to another.


simplify: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.


simplify: Forit isaswhena man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.


simplify: Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites.


rate difficulty: And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

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


rate difficulty: against him came up Shalmaneser king of Asshur, and Hoshea is to him a servant, and doth render to him a present.

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


rate difficulty: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

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


rate difficulty: We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.

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


rate difficulty: For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

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


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down and prayed with them all.

And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.


simplify: Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:


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


simplify: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.’


simplify: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, These that are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they?

And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.


simplify: For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,


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

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


simplify: And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.

And he was sending an evil spirit out of a man who was without the power of talking. And it came about that when the spirit had gone the man had the power of talking; and the people were full of wonder.


rate difficulty: And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,

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


simplify: And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”


rate difficulty: He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

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


simplify: Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.


rate difficulty: And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood.


simplify: And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.


simplify: For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.


simplify: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;


rate difficulty: And I have given My Spirit in you, and ye have lived, And I have caused you to rest on your land, And ye have known that I Jehovah, I have spoken, and I have done <FI>it<Fi> , An affirmation of Jehovah.'

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


simplify: For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

For a presiding officer, as God’s steward, ought to be of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.


rate difficulty: And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.

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


simplify: The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.


rate difficulty: And another sign was seen in the heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems;

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


simplify: And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

If they want information on any point, they should ask their husbands about it at home; for it is unbecoming for a married woman to speak at a meeting of the church.


simplify: He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.


rate difficulty: who appeared in a glorified state, and spoke of his departure, which was destined to take place at Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!

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


rate difficulty: There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching [the] baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

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


rate difficulty: They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless--and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

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


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Ephraim, after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

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


rate difficulty: we--of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

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


simplify: He cutteth out channels among the rocks; And his eye seeth every precious thing.

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.


rate difficulty: and they having gone, told to the rest; not even them did they believe.

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


rate difficulty: Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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


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

But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.


simplify: So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

So Hanun took David's servants, and after cutting off half the hair on their chins, and cutting off the skirts of their robes up to the middle, he sent them away.


simplify: But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the apostles;


simplify: And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.


simplify: He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.


simplify: he declared also to us how he saw the messenger in his house standing, and saying to him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and how the angel had said to him — ‘Send to Jaffa and fetch the Simon, who is also known as Peter;


rate difficulty: (for not the hearers of the law [are] just beforeGod, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

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


rate difficulty: Is wood taken from it to use for work? Do they take of it a pin to hang any vessel on it?

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


rate difficulty: And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.

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


simplify: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,


simplify: And if to live in the flesh <FI>is<Fi> to me a fruit of work, then what shall I choose? I know not;

But what if the life here in the body — if this brings me fruit from my labors? Then which to choose I cannot tell! I am sorely perplexed either way!


simplify: And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.


rate difficulty: And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.


rate difficulty: And it had pictured forms of winged beings and palm-trees; a palm-tree between two winged ones, and every winged one had two faces;

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


rate difficulty: From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

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


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

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


simplify: For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

For which of them has knowledge of the secret of the Lord, and has seen him, and given ear to his word? which of them has taken note of his word and given attention to it?


rate difficulty: Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

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


simplify: These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

After saying this, Jesus went on in front, going up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.


simplify: Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.

So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.


simplify: I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.


rate difficulty: Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: nothing of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth, nor of the magnificence in the midst of them.


rate difficulty: And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

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


simplify: And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.


simplify: Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.


rate difficulty: And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

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


rate difficulty: The Roman officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: “This man must indeed have been ‘God’s Son’!”

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


rate difficulty: I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

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


rate difficulty: for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate. And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood afar off,

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


simplify: Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.


rate difficulty: And as soon as he had ended speaking, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.

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


simplify: And if a man’s hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.


simplify: Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.


rate difficulty: Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

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


rate difficulty: And what he did for you in the waste land, till you came to this place;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.

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


simplify: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

For I say to you, I will not take it till it is made complete in the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.


simplify: but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.


rate difficulty: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

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


simplify: that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.


simplify: According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

in accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.


simplify: but cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done unto this day.

But be true to the Lord your God as you have been till this day.


simplify: Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; they fall down, yea, they worship.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.


simplify: I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth.

Even these I will give up into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives: and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.


rate difficulty: And Job answered and said,


rate difficulty: And if the whole assembly of Israel sin inadvertently, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the congregation, and they do [somewhat against] any of all the commandments of Jehovah [in things] which should not be done, and are guilty;

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


simplify: Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.


rate difficulty: And Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish [language], and said, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

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


simplify: And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.


simplify: In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;


rate difficulty: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

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


simplify: And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.

And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.


rate difficulty: And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

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


rate difficulty: And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.

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


rate difficulty: And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

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


simplify: Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.


simplify: He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.


simplify: no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

No man of the offspring of Aaron whose body is damaged in any way may come near to give the fire offerings of the Lord: he is damaged, he may not come near to make the offerings.


rate difficulty: Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Who <FI>are they<Fi> among all the gods of the lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'

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


simplify: And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.


rate difficulty: Be not a terror unto me: thou art my refuge in the day of evil.

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


simplify: and there was great joy in that city.

and many who were paralyzed or lame were cured, so that there was great rejoicing throughout that city.


rate difficulty: So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

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


rate difficulty: And the father-in-law of Moses saith unto him, `The thing which thou art doing <FI>is<Fi> not good;

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


simplify: Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;


simplify: In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.


simplify: And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit.


simplify: For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.


rate difficulty: And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.


rate difficulty: And the words of Esau her elder son are declared to Rebekah, and she sendeth and calleth for Jacob her younger son, and saith unto him, `Lo, Esau thy brother is comforting himself in regard to thee--to slay thee;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

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


simplify: He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.


rate difficulty: And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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


simplify: And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.


simplify: For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.


simplify: For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.


rate difficulty: After going through those districts and speaking many encouraging words to the disciples, he went into Greece, where he stayed three months.

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


simplify: And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

And the skin of the ox and all its flesh, with its head and its legs and its inside parts and its waste,


rate difficulty: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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


rate difficulty: And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

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


simplify: to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.

To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.


simplify: And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:

And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;


simplify: Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

I entreat you to make my happiness complete — Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.


rate difficulty: If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

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


rate difficulty: But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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


rate difficulty: Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,


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


rate difficulty: The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

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


simplify: so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.


simplify: A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.


simplify: There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.


rate difficulty: And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

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


simplify: And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.


simplify: Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying,

Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel: This is the order which the Lord has given.


simplify: All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.


simplify: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;


simplify: For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.


rate difficulty: You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.

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


rate difficulty: And Rebecca took the clothes of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son;

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


simplify: And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.


rate difficulty: And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

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


rate difficulty: So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

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


simplify: And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.


rate difficulty: the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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


simplify: And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

and they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him.


rate difficulty: The hope of the righteous is joy; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

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


simplify: And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master: as for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master’s brethren.

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to him, Why do you say that I am good? No one is good, but only God.


rate difficulty: A promise which our twelve tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused — and by Jews themselves!

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


rate difficulty: Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

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


simplify: And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: But Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

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


simplify: And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey.

And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.


rate difficulty: Blessed are the gentle,  for they will inherit the earth.


rate difficulty: If the foot says ‘Since I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not because of that cease to belong to the body.

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


simplify: And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

The hand of the Lord is on you even now, and you will be blind for a time and unable to see the sun.” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went feeling about for some one to guide him.


simplify: And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.


simplify: And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born unto the giant.

And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.


simplify: Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.


rate difficulty: For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

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


rate difficulty: Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

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


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

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


simplify: And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

And he said to him, I will come and make him well.


rate difficulty: and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers did.


rate difficulty: And women, who had come along with him out of Galilee, having followed, saw the sepulchre and how his body was placed.

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


rate difficulty: in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

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


simplify: Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

If any question comes up about Titus, he is my brother-worker, working with me for you; or about the others, they are the representatives of the churches to the glory of Christ.


rate difficulty: or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other’s faith.

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


simplify: As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.


simplify: And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.


simplify: When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; And if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.


simplify: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.


simplify: did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee?

Ought not you, also, to have shown mercy to your fellow servant, just as I showed mercy to you?’


rate difficulty: And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:

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


rate difficulty: All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their families, seventeen thousand, two hundred men of war, able to go out with the army for war.

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


rate difficulty: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon: He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand silver-pieces.

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


rate difficulty: And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not been distributed to them.

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


simplify: And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen.


rate difficulty: The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

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


simplify: But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.


rate difficulty: and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after othergods to serve them.

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


simplify: And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.


simplify: Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of life.


rate difficulty: As to the cities that Huram hath given to Solomon, Solomon hath built them, and there he causeth the sons of Israel to dwell.

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


rate difficulty: All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

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


rate difficulty: And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he tookto wifewhen he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

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


simplify: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

It is you who are the light of the world. A town that stands on a hill cannot be hidden.


simplify: And Jehovah did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.


simplify: And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

And if his offering is given for a peace-offering; if he gives of the herd, male or female, let him give it without any mark on it, before the Lord.


simplify: And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.


simplify: And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.

And going from there by sea, we came on the day after opposite Chios, and touching at Samos on the day after that, we came on the third day to Miletus.


simplify: And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.


simplify: `And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

Whenever they take you before the synagogue Courts or the magistrates or other authorities, do not be anxious as to how you will defend yourselves, or what your defense will be, or what you will say;


simplify: And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.


rate difficulty: Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.


simplify: And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.

But, if it is by Beelzebul’s help that I drive out demons, by whose help is it that your own sons drive them out? Therefore they will themselves be your judges.


rate difficulty: What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

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


rate difficulty: If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.


simplify: `And why, also, of yourselves, judge ye not what is righteous?

Why do not you yourselves decide what is right?


rate difficulty: Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

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


rate difficulty: and the men of Ai smite of them about thirty and six men, and pursue them before the gate unto Shebarim, and they smite them in Morad; and the heart of the people is melted, and becometh water.

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


rate difficulty: But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.


simplify: For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.

For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.


rate difficulty: For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,