Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than they?

it has seemed good to me also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus,

But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and what is more excellent than a prophet.

Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.

And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,

we receive it always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness;

and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

And do not they blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;