'Better' in the Bible

and [if you claim to] know His will and approve the things that are essential or have a sense of what is excellent, based on your instruction from the Law,

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

One person regards one day as better [or more important] than another, while another regards every day [the same as any other]. Let everyone be fully convinced (assured, satisfied) in his own mind.

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.