'Better' in the Bible
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 than that of Abel.
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