If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea!

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

And if your eye causes your downfall, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, rather than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire!

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

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

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

And if your hand causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell—the unquenchable fire,

And if your foot causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell— [the unquenchable fire,

And if your eye causes your downfall, gouge it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

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

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

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

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all! For we have previously charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin,

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

So then he who marries his virgin does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death many times.

I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ—which is far better—

Therefore, when we could no longer stand it, we thought it was better to be left alone in Athens.

Those who have believing masters should not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but should serve them better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.

Teach and encourage these things.

Even though we are speaking this way, dear friends, in your case we are confident of the better things connected with salvation.

(for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

So Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

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.

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

For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

But they now desire a better place—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—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

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

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.