most excellent Theophilus, that thou mayst know the certainty of the things wherein thou hast been instructed.

Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.

and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Though I will shew you a way yet more excellent.

Being as much superior to the angels, as He inheriteth a name more excellent than they.

But now He hath obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.

It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with more excellent sacrifices than these.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts: and by it, though dead, he yet speaketh.

The elder unto the excellent Lady, and her children, whom I love in truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;