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bbe@Genesis:29:19 @And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

bbe@Exodus:14:12 @Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

bbe@Exodus:16:3 @And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

bbe@Numbers:14:3 @Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

bbe@Judges:8:2 @And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?

bbe@Judges:9:2 @Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

bbe@Judges:11:25 @What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them?

bbe@Judges:16:5 @And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

bbe@Judges:18:19 @And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

bbe@Ruth:2:22 @And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.

bbe@Ruth:3:10 @And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth

bbe@Ruth:4:15 @He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

bbe@1Samuel:9:2 @He had a son named Saul, a specially good-looking young man; there was no one better-looking among the children of Israel: he was taller by a head than any other of the people.

bbe@1Samuel:15:22 @And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

bbe@1Samuel:15:28 @And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

bbe@1Samuel:18:25 @And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

bbe@2Samuel:10:11 @And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

bbe@2Samuel:11:23 @And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.

bbe@2Samuel:14:32 @And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.

bbe@2Samuel:17:14 @Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

bbe@2Samuel:18:3 @But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.

bbe@1Kings:1:47 @And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

bbe@1Kings:2:32 @And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

bbe@1Kings:19:4 @While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

bbe@1Kings:21:2 @And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

bbe@2Kings:5:12 @Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath

bbe@2Kings:8:8 @Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God and get directions from the Lord by him, saying, Am I going to get better from my disease?

bbe@2Kings:8:9 @So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?

bbe@2Kings:8:10 @And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.

bbe@2Kings:20:7 @Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

bbe@1Chronicles:19:12 @And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then come to my help; and if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

bbe@2Chronicles:13:18 @So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

bbe@2Chronicles:21:13 @But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

bbe@Esther:1:19 @If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

bbe@Esther:6:13 @And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

bbe@Job:7:15 @So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

bbe@Job:10:18 @Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

bbe@Job:35:3 @What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

bbe@Job:41:11 @Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

bbe@Job:41:29 @A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

bbe@Psalms:37:16 @The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

bbe@Psalms:63:3 @Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

bbe@Psalms:84:10 @For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

bbe@Psalms:118:8 @It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.

bbe@Psalms:118:9 @It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.

bbe@Psalms:119:72 @The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

bbe@Proverbs:3:14 @For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

bbe@Proverbs:8:11 @For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

bbe@Proverbs:8:19 @My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

bbe@Proverbs:12:9 @He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

bbe@Proverbs:15:16 @Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

bbe@Proverbs:15:17 @Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

bbe@Proverbs:16:8 @Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

bbe@Proverbs:16:16 @How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

bbe@Proverbs:16:19 @Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

bbe@Proverbs:16:32 @He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.

bbe@Proverbs:17:1 @Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

bbe@Proverbs:17:12 @It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

bbe@Proverbs:19:1 @Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

bbe@Proverbs:19:22 @The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.

bbe@Proverbs:21:9 @It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

bbe@Proverbs:21:19 @It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

bbe@Proverbs:22:1 @A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

bbe@Proverbs:25:7 @For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

bbe@Proverbs:25:24 @It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

bbe@Proverbs:26:19 @So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

bbe@Proverbs:27:5 @Better is open protest than love kept secret.

bbe@Proverbs:27:10 @Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

bbe@Proverbs:28:6 @Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

bbe@Proverbs:31:29 @Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.

bbe@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

bbe@Songs:1:2 @Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

bbe@Songs:4:10 @How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

bbe@Isaiah:38:9 @The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.

bbe@Isaiah:56:5 @I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

bbe@Jeremiah:7:3 @The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.

bbe@Jeremiah:7:5 @For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

bbe@Jeremiah:18:11 @Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

bbe@Jeremiah:20:10 @For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

bbe@Jeremiah:26:13 @So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.

bbe@Jeremiah:35:15 @And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.

bbe@Jeremiah:38:22 @See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

bbe@Lamentations:4:9 @Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

bbe@Daniel:1:20 @And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.

bbe@Daniel:6:3 @Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

bbe@Hosea:2:7 @And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

bbe@Amos:6:2 @Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

bbe@Jonah:4:3 @So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

bbe@Jonah:4:8 @Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

bbe@Nahum:3:8 @Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

bbe@Nahum:3:19 @Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

bbe@Matthew:5:29 @And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

bbe@Matthew:5:30 @And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

bbe@Matthew:10:15 @Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

bbe@Matthew:11:22 @But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

bbe@Matthew:11:24 @But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

bbe@Matthew:18:6 @But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.

bbe@Matthew:18:8 @And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.

bbe@Matthew:18:9 @And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

bbe@Matthew:19:10 @The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married

bbe@Matthew:25:9 @But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves

bbe@Mark:5:26 @And had undergone much at the hands of a number of medical men, and had given all she had, and was no better, but even worse,

bbe@Mark:9:42 @And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.

bbe@Mark:9:43 @And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.

bbe@Mark:9:45 @And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.

bbe@Mark:9:47 @And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,

bbe@Luke:5:39 @And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

bbe@Luke:10:12 @I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

bbe@Luke:10:14 @But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

bbe@Luke:21:15 @For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

bbe@John:4:52 @So he put a question to them as to the hour when he became better; and they said to him, The disease went from him yesterday at the seventh hour.

bbe@Acts:6:10 @But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

bbe@Acts:19:36 @So then, because these things may not be doubted, it would be better for you to be quiet, and do nothing unwise.

bbe@Acts:24:19 @And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

bbe@Acts:27:21 @And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

bbe@Romans:3:1 @How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

bbe@Romans:4:19 @And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

bbe@Romans:14:21 @It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

bbe@1Corinthians:4:7 @For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

bbe@1Corinthians:7:5 @Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

bbe@1Corinthians:7:9 @But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

bbe@1Corinthians:7:38 @So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

bbe@1Corinthians:7:40 @But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

bbe@1Corinthians:8:8 @But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

bbe@1Corinthians:9:15 @But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

bbe@1Corinthians:11:17 @But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

bbe@1Corinthians:12:31 @But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.

bbe@1Corinthians:14:19 @But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

bbe@2Corinthians:2:11 @So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

bbe@Galatians:5:20 @Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

bbe@Philippians:1:23 @I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

bbe@Philippians:2:3 @Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

bbe@1Thessalonians:4:6 @And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

bbe@Hebrews:1:4 @Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

bbe@Hebrews:6:9 @But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

bbe@Hebrews:7:19 @(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

bbe@Hebrews:7:22 @By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

bbe@Hebrews:8:6 @But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

bbe@Hebrews:9:11 @But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

bbe@Hebrews:9:23 @For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

bbe@Hebrews:10:34 @For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

bbe@Hebrews:11:4 @By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

bbe@Hebrews:11:16 @But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

bbe@Hebrews:11:25 @Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

bbe@Hebrews:11:26 @Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.

bbe@Hebrews:11:35 @Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

bbe@Hebrews:11:40 @Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

bbe@Hebrews:12:24 @And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

bbe@James:3:14 @But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

bbe@James:3:16 @For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

bbe@1Peter:3:17 @Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

bbe@2Peter:2:19 @Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

bbe@2Peter:2:21 @For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

bbe@Revelation:3:15 @I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.