'Less' in the Bible

'The greater shall serve the less;'

Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses?

I know and am convinced [as one] in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean [ritually defiled, and unholy] in itself; but [nonetheless] it is unclean to anyone who thinks it is unclean.

But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,