"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.

"So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell fire.

"But the wise ones replied, "No! There will never be enough for us and for you. You'd better go to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.'

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

For the Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.

But there's only one thing you need. Mary has chosen what is better, and it is not to be taken away from her."

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

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

What, then, does this mean? Are we Jews any better off? Not at all! For we have already accused everyone, both Jews and Greeks, of being under the power of sin.

do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

So then the man who marries the virgin acts appropriately, but the man who refrains from marriage does even better.

However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do.

For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

Keep on desiring the better gifts. And now I will show you the best way of all.

Are they the Messiah's servants? I am insane to talk like this, but I am a far better one! I have been involved in far greater efforts, far more imprisonments, countless beatings, and have faced death more than once.

Now what I am saying is this: As long as an heir is a child, he is no better off than a slave, even though he owns everything.

Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.

But for your sake it is better that I remain alive.

Do not act out of selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility think of others as being better than yourselves.

Moreover, those who have believing masters should be respectful to them, because they are fellow believers. In fact, they must serve them even better, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dear to them. These are the things you must teach and exhort.

16no longer as a slave but better than a slave as a dear brother, especially to me, but even more so to you, both as a person and as a believer.

and became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is better than theirs.

Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, things that point to salvation.

since the Law made nothing perfect, and a better hope is presented, by which we approach God.

In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and by faith he was declared to be righteous, since God himself accepted his offerings. And by faith he continues to speak, even though he is dead.

Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.

After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.