31 occurrences

'Better' in the Bible

And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

Verse ConceptsCripplesPunishment, By GodSelf DenialGehennaEntering LifeCausing Others To StumbleNot Maintaining LifeFire Of HellCutting Off Hands And FeetTwo Of Body PartsMissing The Markcutting

And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

Verse ConceptsFeetLamenessGehennaInjury To FeetEntering LifeCausing Others To StumbleCare Of FeetTwo Of Body Parts

And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,

Verse ConceptsSelf DisciplineGehennaEntering The KingdomPlucking OutCausing Others To StumbleEyes HarmedOne Material ThingTwo Of Body Parts

And no one having drunk old wine straightway wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.

Verse ConceptsOld ThingsDrunkennessNew

He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

Verse ConceptsHourFeverAsking Particular QuestionsWhen?People ImprovedRecoveryimprovement

But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.

Verse ConceptsThe Effect Of Christ's DeathUseful Things

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

Verse ConceptsForgiveness, DivineAdvantagesFar Be It!The Gospel To Jew And GentileAll Have Sinned

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

Verse ConceptsGood ActivityNot MarryingMarriage Kjvmatrimonyvirginity

But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

Verse ConceptsAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsGood Or BadPraising Specific People

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordPreeminence Of ChristAngels

But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

Verse ConceptsPersonal GoodThe Gospel Of SalvationFriendship And Trust

But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallBlessing

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

Verse ConceptsAtonementGod, Goodness OfTypes Of ChristThe Future AgeLiving Not For The MaterialThe Temple In Heaven

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

Verse ConceptsCopies Of AltarsRight Sacrificescleansing

Bible Theasaurus

Adept (3 instances)
Amend (15 instances)
Beneficial (12 instances)
Better (302 instances)
Dependable (5 instances)
Effective (13 instances)
Expert (90 instances)
Honest (52 instances)
Honorable (62 instances)
Improve (1 instance)
Practiced (94 instances)
Proficient (4 instances)
Respectable (2 instances)
Salutary (1 instance)
Secure (159 instances)
Serious (65 instances)
Skilful (40 instances)
Skillful (88 instances)
Upright (440 instances)