simplify: Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.


simplify: For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaid: For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

For he has had pity on his servant, though she is poor and lowly placed: and from this hour will all generations give witness to the blessing which has come to me.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.


simplify: The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus,


simplify: On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;

At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;


rate difficulty: And if any one touch anything unclean, the uncleanness of man, or unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which is for Jehovah, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples.

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


simplify: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

piety by mutual affection, and mutual affection by love.


rate difficulty: And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

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


rate difficulty: So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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


simplify: And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.

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


rate difficulty: A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.

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


simplify: All the saints salute you, especially they that are of Cæsar’s household.

All the saints send their love to you, specially those who are of Caesar's house.


rate difficulty: Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.


rate difficulty: That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

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


rate difficulty: But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: For this reason we also, from the day we heard [of your faith and love], do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

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


simplify: And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.


simplify: But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

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


rate difficulty: And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up;

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


rate difficulty: And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.


simplify: For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.

For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.


simplify: Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

And he said to me, Be a prophet to the wind, be a prophet, son of man, and say to the wind, The Lord has said: Come from the four winds, O wind, breathing on these dead so that they may come to life.


simplify: And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Jehovah had given him rest.

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.


simplify: And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

Meanwhile a woman who for twelve years had suffered from hemorrhage,


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

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


rate difficulty: But now are they many members, yet but one body.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

John’s clothes were made of camels’ hair, with a leather strap around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.


simplify: And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;


rate difficulty: Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

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


simplify: The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.


rate difficulty: A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

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


simplify: And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.

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


rate difficulty: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:


rate difficulty: And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.

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


rate difficulty: And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

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


rate difficulty: But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

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


simplify: and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.

And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.


simplify: Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Happy will that servant be whom his master, when he comes home, will find doing this.


rate difficulty: And when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

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


simplify: And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day? it is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.


rate difficulty: And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.


simplify: Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.


rate difficulty: but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

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


rate difficulty: And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.


simplify: Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.


simplify: a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?

A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.


simplify: And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


simplify: And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.

And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;


rate difficulty: and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,


rate difficulty: And they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the priests, the Levites, brought them up.

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


rate difficulty: And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

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


simplify: Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.


rate difficulty: Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.


simplify: Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.


rate difficulty: And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,

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


simplify: And he entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.


simplify: And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.


simplify: for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

For ever since the creation of the universe God’s invisible attributes — his everlasting power and divinity — are to be seen and studied in his works, so that people have no excuse;


rate difficulty: And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I cannot go back.

And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.


rate difficulty: That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

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


simplify: Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known.

All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.


simplify: I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

He will, I tell you, give them justice soon enough! Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”


rate difficulty: Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;


simplify: In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,


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

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


rate difficulty: And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

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


simplify: And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus.


simplify: Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.


simplify: Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of these commandments, even the least of them, and teaches others to do so, will be the least esteemed in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps them, and teaches others to do so, will be esteemed great in the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: `And when thou forbearest to vow, it is not in thee a sin.

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


rate difficulty: For a time the judge refused, but afterwards he said to himself ‘Although I am without fear of God or regard for people,


simplify: Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.


simplify: And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth–horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.


simplify: I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


simplify: Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you:


rate difficulty: Where are thegods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are thegods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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


simplify: And when even was come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

And by evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he by himself on the land.


simplify: that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of Jehovah.

That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.


rate difficulty: And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

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


simplify: And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.


simplify: And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;


rate difficulty: and they say unto Joshua, `Surely Jehovah hath given into our hand all the land; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.'

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.


simplify: And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.


rate difficulty: And the sanctified things <FI>are<Fi> oxen six hundred, and sheep three thousand.

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


simplify: but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.


rate difficulty: Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: So they seized him, and threw him outside the vineyard, and killed him.


simplify: Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, It is not right for this man to be put to death: for he has said words to us in the name of the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;


simplify: The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.


rate difficulty: Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

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


simplify: And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.


rate difficulty: Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

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


simplify: And he shall offer thereof his oblation, even an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

The first Creature is like a lion, the second Creature like a calf, the third Creature has a face like a man’s, and the fourth Creature is like an eagle on the wing.


rate difficulty: He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.


simplify: So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house: he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.


simplify: I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

You all know — But I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because nothing false can come from the truth.


simplify: And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

On getting out of the boat, Jesus saw a great crowd, and his heart was moved at the sight of them, because they were ‘like sheep without a shepherd’; and he began to teach them many things.


simplify: Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.


simplify: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.


simplify: And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.


simplify: And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.


simplify: Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.


simplify: And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Azzah and the towns thereof;

Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;


rate difficulty: And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

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


rate difficulty: While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

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


simplify: For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,


rate difficulty: And the king saith unto the Cushite, `Peace to the youth--to Absalom?' And the Cushite saith, `Let them be--as the youth--the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against thee for evil.'

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


simplify: and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own <FI>friends<Fi> , and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

But Jesus refused. “Go back to your home, to your own people,”he said, “and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you.”


rate difficulty: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.


simplify: But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies,

But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation;


simplify: Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me, take care that you come not again before me; for the day when you see my face again will be your last.


rate difficulty: I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.


rate difficulty: And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:

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


simplify: Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:


simplify: Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.


simplify: Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights.


rate difficulty: Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

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


simplify: And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.


simplify: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.


rate difficulty: A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

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


rate difficulty: And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.

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


simplify: and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:


simplify: And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

It had a great high wall, in which were twelve gates; and at these gates there were twelve angels, and there were names inscribed on the gates, the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites.


simplify: And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.


simplify: And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.

And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship.


rate difficulty: And Jeroboam buildeth Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelleth in it, and goeth out thence, and buildeth Penuel;

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


rate difficulty: For I, Jehovah, love judgment, I hate robbery with wrong; and I will give their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.


simplify: And he went out, and wept bitterly.


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

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


rate difficulty: Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia,

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


rate difficulty: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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


simplify: And the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.


rate difficulty: But Amaziah would not hear. And Jehoash king of Israel went up; and they looked one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.


simplify: For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

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


rate difficulty: But the Master said to him: “You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.


simplify: And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee:

And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;


simplify: So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.


rate difficulty: And he shall cut it into its pieces, and its head, and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;


simplify: Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.


simplify: And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber--in the bridegroom being with them--to fast?

But Jesus answered them: “Can you make the groom’s friends fast while the groom is with them?


rate difficulty: Nor do men put new wine into old skins, otherwise the skins burst and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.

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


rate difficulty: they will take up snakes in their hands; and, if they drink any poison, it will not hurt them; they will place their hands on sick people and they will recover.”


rate difficulty: Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?


simplify: He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.


rate difficulty: `The man who is tender in thee, and who <FI>is<Fi> very delicate--his eye is evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons whom he leaveth,

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


rate difficulty: Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

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


simplify: And his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.


rate difficulty: thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

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


simplify: But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.


rate difficulty: And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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


simplify: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them; and he departed.

And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.


rate difficulty: Sons of Azmaveth, forty and two.

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


simplify: and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.


simplify: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man


simplify: And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.

And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.


simplify: And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.

And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease.


simplify: for as often as ye may eat this bread, and this cup may drink, the death of the Lord ye do shew forth--till he may come;

For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death — until he comes.


rate difficulty: Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that first resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.

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


simplify: The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The tenth Shimei, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?


rate difficulty: At that time Jesus began to proclaim —  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”


rate difficulty: Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

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


rate difficulty: Thus dost thou say unto the prophet What hath Jehovah answered thee? And what hath Jehovah spoken?

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


simplify: And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.


rate difficulty: For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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


rate difficulty: But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue calledthe synagogueof the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

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


rate difficulty: Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may seek him with thee?

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


rate difficulty: Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?


rate difficulty: And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it.


rate difficulty: father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

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


rate difficulty: and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, `Deal kindly with me, Sir--Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'

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


rate difficulty: But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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


simplify: And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


simplify: Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.


simplify: And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.


simplify: Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;


simplify: The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.


simplify: and Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve Jehovah; for he is our God.

And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.


simplify: And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.


rate difficulty: And they declare <FI>it<Fi> to Saul, and he sendeth other messengers, and they prophesy--they also; and Saul addeth and sendeth messengers a third time, and they prophesy--they also.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] that are in a city.

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


simplify: for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.

Do not undo God’s work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is ‘clean,’ yet, if a person eats so as to put a stumbling-block in the way of others, they do wrong.


simplify: As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.


simplify: And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.

And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.


rate difficulty: When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

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


simplify: Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.

A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.


rate difficulty: He that ruineth [his] father and chaseth away [his] mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

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


simplify: And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.


rate difficulty: only to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat that he caused Israel to sin he hath cleaved, he hath not turned aside from it.

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


rate difficulty: he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;'

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


rate difficulty: That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

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


rate difficulty: And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, your sons, by whom do they cast [them] out? For this reason they shall be your judges.

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


simplify: And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast.


simplify: They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.


rate difficulty: And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.


simplify: And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other.


simplify: for in one hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any whither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,

For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,


simplify: If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.

If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.


rate difficulty: Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

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


rate difficulty: And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

“Because you have so little faith,” he answered; “for, I tell you, if your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain ‘Move from this place to that!’ and it would be moved; and nothing would be impossible to you.”


simplify: And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.

And while they were taking him away, they put their hands on Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and made him take the cross after Jesus.


simplify: According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, let us see things of wonder.


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

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


simplify: But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

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


rate difficulty: Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.


rate difficulty: And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.


simplify: And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.


simplify: Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:


rate difficulty: Dark <FI>am<Fi> I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.

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


rate difficulty: And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

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


simplify: Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

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


simplify: to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

and so make your hearts strong, and your lives pure beyond reproach, in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his Holy Ones.


simplify: Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.


rate difficulty: who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have [the] nations raged haughtily and [the] peoples meditated vain things?

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


simplify: And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

Then Peter began.   “I see, beyond all doubt,” he said, “that ‘God does not show partiality,’


rate difficulty: You are to have no other gods but me.


rate difficulty: And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

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


rate difficulty: She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

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


simplify: All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.


rate difficulty: For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

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


simplify: Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the Lord God of Israel.

Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war,

Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,


simplify: who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.


rate difficulty: And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

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


simplify: For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.

For, truly, we are in danger of being made responsible for this day's trouble, there being no cause for it: and we are not able to give any reason for this coming together.


simplify: And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.


simplify: Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:


rate difficulty: Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

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


simplify: Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:


simplify: And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.


rate difficulty: Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

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


simplify: and the Spirit said to me to go with them, nothing doubting, and these six brethren also went with me, and we did enter into the house of the man,

The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six companions also went with me. And, when we came into the man’s house,


rate difficulty: And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.


rate difficulty: And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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


rate difficulty: And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.


rate difficulty: But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?


simplify: Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,


rate difficulty: And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

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


simplify: And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.


simplify: Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

Therefore I declare to you this day, that my conscience is clear in regard to the fate of any of you,


rate difficulty: And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders whichGod had wrought among the nations by them.

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


rate difficulty: He said--the God of Israel--to me, He spake--the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man <FI>is<Fi> righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.


simplify: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

All that time he ate nothing; and, when it was over, he became hungry.


simplify: For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Because he who is dead is free from sin.


rate difficulty: Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.


simplify: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.


rate difficulty: And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua did to them as Jehovah had said to him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.

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


simplify: And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.


simplify: Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.

Then Saul, turning back, went after the Philistines no longer: and the Philistines went back to their place.


simplify: and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the good news.


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.


simplify: Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?


simplify: And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy; and he put us therein.

And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.


simplify: And we ask you, brethren, in regard to the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him,

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered to meet him, we beg you, friends,


rate difficulty: The person, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if they still eat, because their doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

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


simplify: For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.


simplify: For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.


simplify: Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of the town made an outcry, saying, They have sent the ark of the God of Israel to us for the destruction of us and of our people.


simplify: We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.


simplify: Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.


simplify: Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.


simplify: She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.


simplify: and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.


simplify: And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.

And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.


rate difficulty: And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.

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


simplify: And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


rate difficulty: He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

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


simplify: Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.

Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.


simplify: Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.

But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia, for that is my purpose;


rate difficulty: Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

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


rate difficulty: Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: “Happy will be the person who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”

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


rate difficulty: They turn back--not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This <FI>is<Fi> their derision in the land of Egypt!

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


rate difficulty: Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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


simplify: For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

For, to all who have, more will be given, and they will have abundance; but, from all who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.


rate difficulty: And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.


simplify: And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.

And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen.


simplify: And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,

There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had knowledge of face to face;


rate difficulty: And you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.


simplify: The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wickedspeaketh perverseness.

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


simplify: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.


simplify: And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.


rate difficulty: that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Jehovah himself require it;

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


simplify: and build an altar unto Jehovah thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.

Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.


rate difficulty: We beg you, friends, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord’s service, and give you counsel.


simplify: And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)

And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)


rate difficulty: `And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink <FI>it<Fi> .

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


simplify: therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah’s house upon the fast-day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.


rate difficulty: But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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


rate difficulty: And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.

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


simplify: For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.


rate difficulty: But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:


rate difficulty: and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;


rate difficulty: It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said: “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made:

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


rate difficulty: And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

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


rate difficulty: And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. And their net broke.

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


simplify: And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

and from all the followers of the Lord here.


simplify: Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.


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

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the water-spring.


rate difficulty: and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah,

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


simplify: but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;


rate difficulty: and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

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


simplify: For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.


simplify: As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.


rate difficulty: And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;


simplify: But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.


simplify: Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.

Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:


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

But Jesus went on: “Alas for you, too, you students of the law! You load people with loads that are too heavy to carry, but do not, yourselves, touch them with one of your fingers.


simplify: and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe;

And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;


rate difficulty: And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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


simplify: And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.


simplify: who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.


simplify: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

so as to prove yourselves blameless and innocent — ‘faultless children of God, in the midst of an evil-disposed and perverse generation,’ in which you are seen shining like stars in a dark world,


simplify: And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.


simplify: So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

To Christ’s people at Ephesus who are faithful to him, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God.


simplify: And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.


rate difficulty: And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto Jehovah: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

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


rate difficulty: And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

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


simplify: And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

After this, Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and there raised his hands and blessed them.


simplify: Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.


simplify: The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,


simplify: When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.


rate difficulty: And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.

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


rate difficulty: Happy will that servant be whom their master, when he comes home, will find doing this.


simplify: but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.


simplify: and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,

And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin,


simplify: Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.


rate difficulty: The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night — those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.’

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.


rate difficulty: and his host, and their numbered ones, <FI>are<Fi> four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.

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


simplify: Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

So let no one take pride in men. For all things are yours;


simplify: But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him forth out of the prison. And he said, Tell these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went to another place.

But he made a sign to them with his hand to be quiet, and gave them an account of how the Lord had taken him out of prison. And he said, Give the news to James and the brothers. And then he went away.


simplify: Howbeit there shall be no poor with thee (for Jehovah will surely bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it),

But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;


rate difficulty: For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.

This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.


simplify: And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?


simplify: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

If we lose our trust, he is still to be trusted, for he cannot be false to himself!’


simplify: No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,


rate difficulty: If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

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


rate difficulty: And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

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


simplify: And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.


rate difficulty: And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

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


simplify: And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.


simplify: The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the church, and gave himself for her,