'Better' in the Bible
Even though we are speaking this way, dear friends, in your case we are confident of the better things connected with salvation.
(for the law perfected nothing), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
So Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.
But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.
Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.
For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.
By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.
But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,
since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.
to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.
Bible Theasaurus
- Adept (3 instances)
- Amend (15 instances)
- Beneficial (12 instances)
- Best (329 instances)
- Better (302 instances)
- Break (282 instances)
- Dear (168 instances)
- Dependable (5 instances)
- Effective (13 instances)
- Expert (90 instances)
- Full (1178 instances)
- Good (1584 instances)
- Honest (52 instances)
- Honorable (62 instances)
- Improve (1 instance)
- Near (1082 instances)
- Practiced (94 instances)
- Proficient (4 instances)
- Respectable (2 instances)
- Right (1613 instances)
- Ripe (38 instances)
- Safe (422 instances)
- Salutary (1 instance)
- Secure (159 instances)
- Serious (65 instances)
- Skilful (40 instances)
- Skillful (88 instances)
- Sound (378 instances)
- Upright (440 instances)
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