'Better' in the Bible

But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

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

But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

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

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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 you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

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

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

For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

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