And therefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one part of thee perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell:

and if thy right hand cause thee to offend, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee that one of thy limbs should perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

but whosoever shall lay a stumbling-block in the way of one of these little ones, who believe in me, it were better for him that a milstone were hung on his neck, and that he were thrown into the sea.

If then thy hand or thy foot cause thee to offend, cut them off and cast them from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire:

and if thine eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life with but one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire.

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones, that believe in me, to offend, it were better for him, if a milstone were laid upon his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

And if thy hand cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that will never be extinguished;

And if thy foot cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the inextinguishable fire;

And if thine eye cause thee to offend, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire;

And no one that has been drinking old wine, immediately desireth new; for he saith, the old is better.

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

He inquired therefore of them the hour in which he grew better: and they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

nor do ye consider, that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, than that the whole nation should perish.

"What then are we the better?" Not at all, in point of justification; for we have before proved that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin: as it is written,

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

I think then, that it is---better on account of the present distress,---that it is better, I say,

So that he, who giveth her in marriage, doth well; but he, that giveth her not in marriage, doth better.

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

But I have availed myself of none of these things. Nor have I written these things, that it might be so done as to me: for it were better for me to die, than that any one should make this my glorying void.

But whilst I am declaring this, I do not commend you, that ye assemble together not for the better, but for the worse.

Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak for your caution.

for the law made nothing perfect, but the introducing of a better hope did, by which we draw near to God.

by so much is Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

But now He hath obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.

for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

But they desire a better, that is, an heavenly one; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He hath prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

God having provided something better concerning us, that without us they might not be made perfect.

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

For it is better (if it be the will of God) to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than when they knew it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.