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better and ~ Heb_10_34 # 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.
better but ~ 1Co_11_17 # Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
better country ~ Heb_11_16 # 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.
better covenant ~ Heb_08_06 # 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.
better for ~ 1Co_09_15 # But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
better for ~ 1Sa_27_01 # And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
better for ~ 2Pe_02_21 # For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
better for ~ Ecc_02_24 # [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
better for ~ Exo_14_12 # [Is] not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For [it had been] better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
better for ~ Jon_04_03 # Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
better for ~ Jon_04_08 # And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.
better for ~ Jud_09_02 # Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh.
better for ~ Jud_18_19 # And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
better for ~ Luk_17_02 # It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
better for ~ Mar_09_42 # And whosoever shall offend one of [these] little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
better for ~ Mar_09_43 # And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
better for ~ Mar_09_45 # And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
better for ~ Mar_09_47 # And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
better for ~ Mat_18_06 # But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
better for ~ Mat_18_08 # Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast [them] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
better for ~ Mat_18_09 # And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
better for ~ Num_14_03 # And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
better hope ~ Heb_07_19 # For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
better if ~ 1Pe_03_17 # For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
better is ~ Ecc_04_03 # Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Better is ~ Ecc_04_06 # Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.
Better is ~ Ecc_04_13 # Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Better is ~ Ecc_05_05 # Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Better is ~ Ecc_06_09 # Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Better is ~ Ecc_07_08 # Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
Better is ~ Pro_15_16 # Better [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Better is ~ Pro_15_17 # Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better is ~ Pro_16_08 # Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
better is ~ Pro_16_16 # How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Better is ~ Pro_17_01 # Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
Better is ~ Pro_19_01 # Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
better is ~ Pro_27_10 # Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.
Better is ~ Pro_28_06 # Better [is] the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than [he that is] perverse [in his] ways, though he [be] rich.
better is ~ Son_04_10 # How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Better it ~ Pro_16_19 # Better [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
better it ~ Pro_25_07 # For better [it is] that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
better neither ~ 1Co_08_08 # But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
better promises ~ Heb_08_06 # 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.
better resurrection ~ Heb_11_35 # Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
better sacrifices ~ Heb_09_23 # [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.
better testament ~ Heb_07_22 # By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
better than ~ 1Ki_01_47 # And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.
better than ~ 1Ki_02_32 # And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing [thereof, to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
better than ~ 1Ki_19_04 # But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
better than ~ 1Sa_15_22 # And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.
better than ~ 1Sa_15_28 # And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.
better than ~ 2Ch_21_13 # But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, [which were] better than thyself:
better than ~ 2Ki_05_12 # [Are] not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
better than ~ 2Sa_17_14 # And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
better than ~ Amo_06_02 # Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
better than ~ Dan_01_20 # And in all matters of wisdom [and] understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.
better than ~ Ecc_03_22 # Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
better than ~ Ecc_04_09 # Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
better than ~ Ecc_06_03 # If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.
better than ~ Ecc_07_01 # A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
better than ~ Ecc_07_03 # Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
better than ~ Ecc_07_08 # Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
better than ~ Ecc_07_10 # Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
better than ~ Ecc_09_04 # For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
better than ~ Ecc_09_16 # Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
better than ~ Ecc_09_18 # Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
better than ~ Est_01_19 # If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
better than ~ Heb_01_04 # Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
better than ~ Isa_56_05 # Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
better than ~ Jud_08_02 # And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? [Is] not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
better than ~ Jud_11_25 # And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
better than ~ Lam_04_09 # [They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.
better than ~ Luk_12_24 # Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
better than ~ Mat_06_26 # Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
better than ~ Mat_12_12 # How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
better than ~ Nah_03_08 # Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
better than ~ Php_02_03 # [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
better than ~ Pro_03_14 # For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
better than ~ Pro_08_11 # For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
better than ~ Pro_08_19 # My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
better than ~ Pro_12_09 # [He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
better than ~ Pro_16_32 # [He that is] slow to anger [is] better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
better than ~ Pro_19_22 # The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] better than a liar.
better than ~ Pro_27_05 # Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
better than ~ Psa_37_16 # A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.
better than ~ Psa_63_03 # Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
better than ~ Psa_69_31 # [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
better than ~ Psa_84_10 # For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
better than ~ Rom_03_09 # What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
better than ~ Son_01_02 # Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine.
better that ~ 2Sa_18_03 # But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.
better that ~ Gen_29_19 # And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
better thing ~ Ecc_08_15 # Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
better thing ~ Heb_11_40 # God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
better things ~ Heb_06_09 # But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
better things ~ Heb_12_24 # And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
better to ~ 1Co_07_09 # But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
better to ~ 1Sa_01_08 # Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?
better to ~ Ecc_07_02 # [It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.
better to ~ Ecc_07_05 # [It is] better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
better to ~ Pro_21_09 # [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
better to ~ Pro_21_19 # [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
better to ~ Pro_25_24 # [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
better to ~ Psa_118_08 # [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
better to ~ Psa_118_09 # [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
better to ~ Rut_04_15 # And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
better unto ~ Eze_36_11 # And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
better unto ~ Psa_119_72 # The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
better vineyard ~ 1Ki_21_02 # And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
better with ~ Hos_02_07 # And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.
better ~ 1Co_07_38 # So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.
better ~ Ecc_06_11 # Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
better ~ Ecc_07_03 # Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
better ~ Ecc_10_11 # Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
better ~ Heb_07_07 # And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
better ~ Luk_05_39 # No man also having drunk old [wine] straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
better ~ Php_01_23 # For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
bettered but ~ Mar_05_26 # And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,