'Better' in the Bible

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:

But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

But now they desire a better country , that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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

For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.