'Less' in the Bible

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when ye give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the commandment of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

Was it to-day that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

And now, let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this manner, neither yet believe him; for no +god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, nor out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this,

How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words to strive with him?

How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!

Excellent speech becometh not a vile man; how much less do lying lips a noble!

Good living beseemeth not a fool; how much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

Behold, when it was whole, it was used for no work; how much less when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burned, should it yet be used for any work?

which is less indeed than all seeds, but when it is grown is greater than herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and roost in its branches.

As to a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,

And there were women also looking on from afar off, among whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,