but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.