And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.