And no man having drunk old straightaway desires new, for he says, The old is better.

It is better for him if a donkey-powered millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we already charged both Jews and Greeks to all be under sin,

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

Now in this that is commanded, I do not praise you, because ye do not assemble for the better but for the worse.

But be zealous for the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

Having become so much better than the heavenly agents, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

But we are persuaded better things about you, beloved, and things that have salvation, even though we speak this way.

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

Indeed therefore, a necessity was for the models of the things in the heavens themselves to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things with better sacrifices than these.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.

For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.