'Better' in the Bible

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than -- no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.