'Less' in the Bible

It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.