If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell,

If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell,

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

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

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

So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

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

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

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

But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;

having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

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

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

But as it is, they desire a better country, 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 back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured, not accepting their release, so that they might obtain a better resurrection;

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.

For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

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