Receive my instruction ¹  rather than ²  silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

But Peter and the apostles replied, ¹  “We must obey ²  God rather than people. ³ 

so that I ¹  would prefer ²  strangling, ³  and ⁴  death ⁵  more ⁶  than life. ⁷ 

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

Go ¹  instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

A good name ¹  is to be chosen ²  rather than great wealth, good favor ³  more than silver or gold.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! ¹ 

Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away ¹  from the body and at home with the Lord.

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. ¹  (Selah)

How much better it is to acquire ¹  wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable ²  than silver.

But he replied, ¹  “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey ²  it!”

But Peter and John replied, ¹  “Whether it is right before God to obey ²  you rather than God, you decide,

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. ¹  Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan ²  that operates by faith.

Certainly ¹  spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. ²  I would rather stand at the entrance ³  to the temple of my God than live ⁴  in the tents of the wicked.

and make straight paths for your feet, ¹  so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

It is better for a person to meet ¹  a mother bear being robbed of her cubs, than ²  to encounter ³  a fool in his folly. ⁴ 

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight ¹  in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings. ²