'Better' in the Bible
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.
But in giving this instruction, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.