'Better' in the Bible

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

The one who has ears had better listen!

The one who has ears had better listen!"

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!"

The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!"

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

For the Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born."

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said this, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, 'Friend, move up here to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you.

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than -- no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel's does.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!