11 Bible Verses about Advantages

“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.

For what advantage does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage does the poor man have, knowing how to walk before the living?

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food.

Go over to Calneh and look,
And go from there to Hamath the great,
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are they better than these kingdoms,
Or is their territory greater than yours?

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

“For the Mighty One has done great things for me;
And holy is His name.