If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

And 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 maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck 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 the fire of hell.

The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

The Son of Man goes just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

and she had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she owned, and was no better but rather grew worse.

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

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, to the fire that shall never be quenched.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is 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 goes just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."

And no one after drinking old wine desires the new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"

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

So he inquired of them the hour when his son got better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

One man esteems one day as better than another; another man esteems every day alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who does not marry her will do better.

But food will not commend us to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

But in the following instructions, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

Are they servants of Christ? I am a better oneI am talking like a madmanin far more labors, in far more imprisonments, with more beatings, and often in danger of death.

I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better;

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but they must serve them all the better, because those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that accompany salvation.

(for the law made nothing perfect); and on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But as it is, he has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

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 for them a city.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

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

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

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.

For it would have been 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.