'Less' in the Bible
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.