'Greater' in the Bible

For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

And his affection for you is much greater when he remembers the obedience of you all, how you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.