So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

"And if your own hand or your own foot makes you do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way. It is better for you to get into life maimed or crippled than to have both hands or both feet to be thrown into everlasting torture.

And if your own eye makes you do wrong, pluck it out and put it out of your way. It is better for you to go into life with a single eye than to have both eyes to be thrown into the pit of torture.

The Son of Man is going away as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born!"

And whoever leads one of these lowly believers to do wrong, might better have a huge millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea.

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

And if your foot makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life crippled than keep both your feet and be thrown into the pit.

And if your eye makes you do wrong, tear it out. You might better go into the kingdom of God with only one eye than keep both your eyes and be thrown into the pit,

For the Son of Man is going away, as the Scriptures say of Him, but a curse will be on that man by whom He is betrayed. It would have been better for that man, if he had never been born."

that you may better know the certainty of those things that you have been taught.

A pupil is not better than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones.

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.

Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

What is our conclusion then? Is it that we Jews are better than they? Not at all! For we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under the sway of sin,

For in accordance with my better inner nature I approve God's law,

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

But if she does leave him, she must remain single, or better, be reconciled to her husband. I instruct the husband too not to divorce his wife.

And so the man who gives his daughter in marriage does what is right, and yet the man who does not do so does even better.

Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.

But as I am giving you these instructions I cannot approve of your meetings, because they do not turn out for the better but for the worse.

But you must earnestly continue to cultivate your higher spiritual gifts. And yet I will show you a way that is better by far:

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

I am hesitating between two desires, for I long to depart and to be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.

as you are practicing it toward all the brothers all over Macedonia. We beg you, brothers, to continue to live better and better;

Those who have Christian masters must not pay them less respect because they are brothers; they must serve them all the better, because those who get the benefit of their service are believers and so are dear to them. These are the things that you must continue to teach and urge them to do.

But in your case, my dearly loved friends, even though we speak in such a tone, we are sure of better things, yea, things that point to salvation.

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

so much the more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

So, on the one hand, the copies of the original things in heaven had to be purified with such sacrifices; but on the other hand, the original things themselves in heaven with better sacrifices than these.

But in reality they were aspiring for a better country, I mean, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

for God had provided something still better for us, that they, apart from us might not attain perfection.

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks a better message than even Abel's did.

As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

For it is better, if the will of God should plan it so, to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of uprightness than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command committed to their trust.