'Better' in the Bible

and became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is better than theirs.

Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, things that point to salvation.

since the Law made nothing perfect, and a better hope is presented, by which we approach God.

In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and by faith he was declared to be righteous, since God himself accepted his offerings. And by faith he continues to speak, even though he is dead.

Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.