'Less' in the Bible

And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,

He has to become greater while I become less.

And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.

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,

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.