'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.

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel's does.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!