'Degree' in the Bible

If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree—not to exaggerate—to all of you.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.