KJV Grade Level | NIV Grade Level | NASB Grade Level | TEV Grade Level | NKJV Grade Level | ||
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Gen. 1 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 5.2 | |
Mal. 1 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.6 | |
Matt. 1 | 6.7 | 16.4 | 6.8 | 11.8 | 10.3 | |
Rev. 1 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 7.7 | |
Grade Level Average | 5.8 | 8.4 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 6.9 | <
KJV | NIV | NASB | Good News (TEV) | NKJV | |
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John 1:1-21 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 3.9 |
Gal 1:1-21 | 8.6 | 9.8 | 10.4 | 6.7 | 8.9 |
James 1:1-21 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 6.4 |
NASB vs. KJV | HARD WORD (NASB) | EASY WORD (KJV) |
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Matt. l:ll, 1:17 | carried away | |
Matt. l:20 | thought | |
Matt. 2:1, 2:7 | wise men | |
Mark. 2:21 | new | |
Matt. 2:16 | coasts | |
Luke 3:17, Matt.3:12 | fan | |
Luke 11:33, Matt. 5:15, Mark 4.21 | bushel | |
Matt. 5:19 | break | |
Matt. 5:21 | kill | |
Luke 5:29, Matt. 8:11 | sat | |
Matt. 8:32 | go | |
Matt. 9:13, 12:7 | mercy | |
Matt. 9:17 | bottles | |
Matt. 9:18 | certain ruler | |
Mark 5:25, Matt. 9:20 | issue of blood | |
Matt. 9:20, 14:36 | hem | |
Matt. 9:38 | pray | |
Matt. 10:1 | called | |
Matt. 10:10 | coats | |
Matt. 10:16 | wise | |
Matt. 11:26 | good | |
Matt. 13:46 | price | |
Matt. 14:24 | was now in the midst of the sea | |
[But in Mark 6:47, NASB uses "midst of the sea" and in John 7:14 they use "midst of the feast"] | ||
Matt. 12:24 | tossed |
HARD WORD (NASB) | EASY WORD (KJV) | |
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Matt. 15:6 | ||
Matt. 15:17 | ||
Matt. 16:27 | ||
Matt. 17:24 | ||
Matt. 17:27 | ||
Matt. 18:32 | ||
Matt. 20:15 | ||
Matt. 20:2 | ||
Matt. 21:15 | ||
Matt. 22:38 | ||
Matt. 23:37 | ||
Matt. 24:2 | (implies violence) | |
Matt. 25:2 | ||
Matt. 25:10 | ||
Matt. 26:4 | ||
Matt. 26:7. Luke 7:37 | ||
Matt. 26:46 | ||
Matt. 26:50 | ||
Matt. 26:58 | ||
Matt. 26:59 | ||
Matt. 27:27 | ||
Matt. 27:27 | ||
Mark 15:16 | ||
Matt. 27:65 | ||
Mark 1:12 | ||
Mark 1:14 | ||
Mark 4:37 | ||
Mark 4:38 | ||
Mark 5:4 | ||
Mark 5:5 | ||
Mark 6:8 | ||
Mark 6:53 | ||
Mark 8:36 | ||
Mark 12:28 | ||
Mark 13:9 | ||
Mark 14:1 | ||
Mark 14:3 | ||
Mark 14:3, 14:18 |
HARD WORD (NASB) | EASY WORD (KJV) | ||
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Luke 1:22 | |||
Mark 15:16 | |||
Mark 15:18 | |||
Luke 3:5 | |||
Luke 6:17 | |||
Luke 5:5 | |||
Luke 6:22 | their company | ||
Luke 6:48 | |||
Luke 6:49 | |||
Luke 7:2 | |||
Luke 7:32 | |||
Luke 8:15 | |||
Luke 8:31 | |||
Luke 8:33 | |||
Luke 9:39 | |||
Luke 9:42 | |||
Luke 9:45 | |||
Luke 10:2 | |||
Luke 10:2 | |||
Luke 10:20 | |||
Luke 10:21 | |||
Luke 11:21 | |||
Luke 11:28 | |||
Luke 23:45 | |||
the sun was darkened being obscured, implying the natural phenomenon of an eclipse rather than a supernatural move of God.) | |||
Luke 18:40 | |||
John 6:60 | |||
John 7:6 | |||
John 10:23 | |||
John 10:24 | |||
John ll:17 | |||
John 11:57 | |||
John 11:39 | |||
John 12:45 | |||
John 12:40 | |||
John 13:12 |
HARD WORD (NASB) | EASY WORD (KJV) | |
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John 13:23 | reclining | leaning |
John 14:27 | fearful | afraid |
John 16:8 | concerning | of |
John 16:19 | deliberating | inquire |
John 16:25 | figurative language | proverbs |
John 16:26 | on your behalf | for you |
John 17:4 | accomplished | finished |
John 17:8 | understood | known |
John 17:9 | I ask on their behalf | I pray for them |
John 18:1 | ravine | brook |
John 18:3, 18:12 | Roman cohort | a band |
John 18:28, 18:33, 19:9 | Praetorium | hall of judgement |
John 19:2 | arrayed | put on |
John 19:20 | inscription | title |
John 19:23 | tunic | coat |
John 21:7 | stripped for work | naked |
John 16:16, 16:19 | behold | see |
John 16:19 | are you deliberating | do you inquire |
John 18:12 | arrested | took |
John 18:14 | on behalf of | for |
Acts 1:7 | epochs | seasons |
Acts 1:7 | fixed | put |
Acts 1:16 | arrested | took |
Acts 2:22 | attested | approved |
Acts 2:26 | exulted | was glad |
Acts 2:26 | abide | rest |
Acts 3:11, 5:12 | portico | porch |
Acts 3:12 | piety | holiness |
Acts 5:40 | flogged | beaten |
Acts 7:13 | disclosed | made known |
Acts 8:20 | silver | money |
Acts 10:1 | cohort | band |
Acts 10:5 | dispatch | send |
NEW VERSION | KJV | |
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"May you and your money go to hell" (Good News for Modern Man) |
Acts 8:20 | "Thy money perish with thee" |
"you illegitmate bastard" (The Living Bible) |
John 9:34 | "thou wast altogether born in sins" |
"You son of a bitch" (The Living Bible) |
I Sam. 20:30 | "Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman." |
LIVING BIBLE | KJV | |
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And if someone asks, 'Then what are these scars on your chest and your back? he will say, 'I got into a brawl at the home of a friend'. (Taylor's footnote says, "self-inflicted cuts...this is not a passage referring to Chirst.") |
Zech 13:6 | And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. |
New Version | |
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You people judge | John 8:15 |
You people see | John 4:48, 4:20 |
For He Himself is our peace | Eph. 2:14 |
I have sent them Myself. | Acts 10:20 |
He made Himself out to be the Son of God. | John 19:7 |
not be delivered up | John 18:36 |
those who have come off victorious from the beast | Rev. 15:2 |
make yourself out to be God | John 10:33 |
cast a net in the sea | Mark 1:16 |
let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby in order that I may preach there also for that is what I came out for. | Mark 1:38 |
Take Him yourselves. | John 18:31 |
but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. | Acts 5:39 |
I am the way, and the truth and the life | John 14:6 |
if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart | Matt. 18:35 |
it remains by itself alone | John 12:24 |
NEW VERSIONS | KJV | |
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If any woman who is a believer has dependent widows let her assist them. | I Tim. 5:16 | If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them. |
free men and slaves | Rev. 13:16 | free and bond |
workers at home (NASB) | Titus 2:5 | keepers at home |
busy at home (NIV) | ||
keep house (The word in Timothy is not 'keeper' ouros, but 'guide' oikod. | I Tim. 5:14 | guide the house |
NIV | KJV |
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By faith Abraham even though he was past age--and Sara herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise | Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. |
NEW VERSIONS | KJV | |
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You adulteresses (NASB) unfaithful wife(LB) |
James 4:4 | Ye adulterers and adulteresses |
wicked women (New Scofield) | p. 314 | children of Belial |
[[The earliest and most reliable manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have John 7:53- 8:11]] notes the NIV et al. |
John 7:53-8:11 | These twelve verses show Christ revelaing the adult erers among the "scribes" and for giving the adulter ous woman. Von Soden reveals "in the great majority of the manuscripts it stands in the text. One Princeton scholar adds, "The notes printed in the modern versions are completely misleading." |
OMIT | Luke 16:14, Rom. 1:29, Eph. 5:3, Col. 3:5, 2 Tim. 3:2, Ps. 10:3, 119:36, Jer. 22:17, 6:13, 8:10, Ezek. 18:21, Prov. 28:16, Isa. 57:17 |
The command- ments against covetousness include , 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife'. New versions omit this form of covetousness |
passion | Col. 3:5 | inordinate affection (passion with one's wife is allowed). |
OMIT | Matt. 19:29 | wife |
NEW VERSIONS | KJV | |
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O men | Luke 12:28 | O ye |
O men | Matt. 6:30 | O ye |
spititual men | I Cor. 3:1 | spiritual |
adoption as sons | Eph. 1:5 | adoption as children |
purchased for God with thy blood, men from every tribe. |
Rev. 5:9 | redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred |
sons | Luke 20:34 | children |
sons | Luke 20:36 | children |
sons of light | John 12:36 | children |
sons | Acts 7:23 | children |
sons | Acts 7:37 | children |
sons | Acts 9:15 | children |
sons | Acts 10:36 | children |
son | Acts 13:10 | child |
sons | Eph. 2:2 | children |
sons | Eph. 5:6 | children |
sons | I Thess. 5:5 | children |
sons | Heb. 12:5 | chldren |
sons | Rev. 7:4 | children |
sons | Matt. 12:27 | children |
sons | Matt. 17:28 | children |
sons of the kingdom | Matt. 8:12 | children of the kingdom |
sons of the kingdom | Matt. 13:38 | children of the kingdom |
his faith | Rom. 12:6 | faith |
boy | Isa. 11:6 | child |
boys | Matt. 2:16 | children |
two men | Matt. 24:40 | two |
blind men | Matt. 23:17 | blind |
free men | Rev. 13:16 | free |
such men | 2 Tim. 3:5 | such |
men who | I Tim. 4:3 | them which |
he shall be saved | Matt. 24:13 | shall be saved |
foolish men | Luke 24:25 | fools |