'Less' in the Bible

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty [lashes] less one.

But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?

Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that [when] you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

Let a widow be put on the list [if she] is not less than sixty years [old], the wife of one husband,

Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape [when they] refused the one who warned [them] on earth, much less [will] we [escape], [if we] reject the [one who warns] from heaven,