Better

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better if one man died for the people.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.

…no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are convinced of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation.

…(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

…to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.