being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this way.

And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.

For the Law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw near to God.

by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which was built upon better promises.

Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these.

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

But now they stretch forth to a better fatherland, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.