ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword ¹  are better off than those who die of hunger, ²  those who ³  waste away, ⁴  struck down ⁵  from lack of ⁶  food. ⁷ 

At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier ¹  than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ¹  The one who has ears had better listen! ² 

The ¹  disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ¹  two feet and be thrown into hell. ² 

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. ¹ 

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

I feel torn between the two, ¹  because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

So it was necessary for the sketches ¹  of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, ²  but the heavenly things themselves required ³  better sacrifices than these.

and women received back their dead raised to life. ¹  But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. ² 

and to Jesus, the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does. ² 

Isn’t this what we told you ¹  in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, ²  because it is better for us to serve ³  the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’” ⁴ 

Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Then he ¹  will bring you to the land your ancestors ²  possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, ¹  for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She ²  is better to you than seven sons!”