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Better Ecc_04_06 {Better} [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.
Better Ecc_04_13 {Better} [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Better Ecc_05_05 {Better} [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Better 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 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 Pro_17_01 {Better} [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
Better 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 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 Pro_15_16 {Better} [is] little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Better Pro_15_17 {Better} [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better Pro_16_08 {Better} [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Better Pro_16_19 {Better} [it is to be] of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
better 1Co_07_09 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is {better} to marry than to burn.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1Sa_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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Ecc_07_01 A good name [is] {better} than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
better Ecc_07_03 Sorrow [is] better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made {better}.
better 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 Ecc_06_11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the {better}?
better 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 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 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 Ecc_04_09 Two [are] {better} than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
better Ecc_07_03 Sorrow [is] {better} than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
better 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 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 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 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 Ecc_07_05 [It is] {better} to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
better 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 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 Ecc_09_18 Wisdom [is] {better} than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
better Ecc_10_11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no {better}.
better 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 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 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 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 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 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 Heb_11_40 God having provided some {better} thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
better 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 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 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 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 Heb_07_07 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the {better}.
better 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 Heb_07_22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a {better} testament.
better 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 Heb_01_04 Being made so much {better} than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
better Heb_06_09 But, beloved, we are persuaded {better} things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
better 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Luk_05_39 No man also having drunk old [wine] straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is {better}.
better 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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}:
better Php_02_03 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other {better} than themselves.
better Pro_08_19 My fruit [is] {better} than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
better 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 Pro_12_09 [He that is] despised, and hath a servant, [is] {better} than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
better Pro_16_16 How much {better} [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
better Pro_19_22 The desire of a man [is] his kindness: and a poor man [is] {better} than a liar.
better 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 Pro_21_09 [It is] {better} to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
better Pro_21_19 [It is] {better} to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
better 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 Pro_27_05 Open rebuke [is] {better} than secret love.
better 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 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 Pro_03_14 For the merchandise of it [is] {better} than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
better Psa_118_08 [It is] {better} to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
better Psa_118_09 [It is] {better} to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
better Psa_69_31 [This] also shall please the LORD {better} than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
better 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 Psa_119_72 The law of thy mouth [is] {better} unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
better Psa_37_16 A little that a righteous man hath [is] {better} than the riches of many wicked.
better Psa_63_03 Because thy lovingkindness [is] {better} than life, my lips shall praise thee.
better 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 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 Son_01_02 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] {better} than wine.
better 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!
bettered 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,