'Better' in the Bible
having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak:
But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of you possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.
But now they desire a better country , that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.
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