1Cor 7:9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1Cor 7:38 So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.
1Cor 11:17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
1Cor 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts.And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Phili 1:23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Heb 1:4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
Heb 6:9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.
Heb 7:7 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.
Heb 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
Heb 7:22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
Heb 8:6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
Heb 9:23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 10:34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Heb 11:16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
Heb 11:35 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
Heb 11:40 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Heb 12:24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
1Pe 3:17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
2Pe 2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
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