'Better' in the Bible

Fear not therefore; ye are better than many sparrows.

How much better then is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do well on the sabbath.

And whosoever shall be a snare to one of the little ones who believe in me, it were better for him if a millstone were hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;

And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,

And no one having drunk old wine straightway wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.

But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.

Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are ye than the birds?

He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

But in prescribing to you on this which I now enter on, I do not praise, namely, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.

But I am pressed by both, having the desire for departure and being with Christ, for it is very much better,

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

But we are persuaded concerning you, beloved, better things, and connected with salvation, even if we speak thus.

But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)

It was necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.

For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

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

For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer as well-doers than as evildoers;

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.