Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not much better than they are?

How much better is a man then than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.

And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw them from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.

And whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in Me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea.

And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

And if your foot offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame than to have two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

And if your eye offends you, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes to be cast into hell fire

Also no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, The old is better.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, having neither storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you better than the birds?

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Then he asked of them the hour when he began to get better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

But in enjoining this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.

But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.

For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.

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.

For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

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