'Less' in the Bible
There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.
If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.
and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,
I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.
A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.