1 Corinthians 7:9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 11:17. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1 Corinthians 12:31. But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Hebrews 1:4. Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 6:9. But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews 7:7. And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews 7:19. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 7:22. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 9:23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 10:34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 11:16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:35. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:40. God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12:24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
1 Peter 3:17. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
2 Peter 2:21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
1 Samuel 15:15. And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Kings 19:4. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Esther 1:19. If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Psalm 16:6. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Psalm 23:5. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalm 84:11. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 3:14. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Proverbs 8:11. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Proverbs 8:19. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 12:2. A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Proverbs 12:9. He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Proverbs 13:12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 15:16. Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs 15:17. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:29. The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
Proverbs 16:19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 16:32. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Proverbs 17:1. Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Proverbs 19:22. The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 24:5. A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:1. How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:17. For being mortal himself, he formeth a dead thing with his wicked hands. For he is better than they whom he worshippeth, because he indeed hath lived, though he were mortal, but they never.
Sirach 10:27. The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.
Sirach 16:3. For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.
Sirach 18:16. Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so also the good word is better than the gift.
Sirach 19:24. And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance, and maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown:
Sirach 20:31. Presents and gifts blind the eyes of judges, and make them dumb in the mouth, so that they cannot correct.
Sirach 23:27. And he understandeth not that his eye seeth all things, for such a man's fear driveth him from the fear of God, and the eyes of men fearing him:
Sirach 29:22. A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.
Sirach 30:14. Better is a poor man who is sound, and strong of constitution, than a rich man who is weak and afflicted with evils.
Sirach 30:17. Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.
Sirach 36:21. The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.
Sirach 41:15. Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
Sirach 42:14. For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.
Isaiah 56:5. Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Ezekiel 32:21. The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Daniel 1:15. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
Amos 6:2. Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
1 Maccabees 13:5. And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of trouble: for I am not better than my brethren.
2 Maccabees 3:2. It came to pass that even the kings themselves and the princes esteemed the place worthy of the highest honour, and glorified the temple with very great gifts:
2 Maccabees 4:12. For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.
