Observe the birds of the air, that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into granaries. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

How much better, then, is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath-days.

but whoever ensnares one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

If, then, your hand or your foot ensnares you, cut it off, and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye ensnares you, pull it out, and throw it from you. It is better to enter into life with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell-fire.

And whoever will ensnare one of these little ones that believe on me, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

And if your hand ensnare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter maimed into life, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is not quenched,

And if your foot en snare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to Be thrown into hell, into the fire that is not quenched,

And if your eye ensnare you, pull it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be thrown into hell-fire,

And no one, after drinking old wine, immediately desires new; for he says: The old is better.

It would be better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

These were of a better disposition than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

But if our unrighteousness causes God's plan of justifying men to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.

One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.

But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.

But I have availed myself of none of these things; nor do I write these things that it should be so done to me. For it would be better for me to die, than that any one should make my boasting vain.

But I praise you not in this, which I now mention, that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

I am in a strait between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better:

doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.

And, without any contradiction, the less is blessed by the better.

(for the law made no perfect expiation), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

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

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established with reference to better promises.

It was necessary, therefore, that the copies of the things in the heavens should be consecrated by these sacrifices; but that the heavenly things themselves should be consecrated by better sacrifices than these.

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, that he should be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

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

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

For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.

and we have the prophetic word better established. You do well to attend to this, as to a lamp that shines in a dark place, till the day dawn, and the morning star arise in your hearts;

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.