For people ¹  swear by something greater than themselves, ²  and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute. ³ 

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

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, ¹  than for doing evil.

that ¹  if our conscience condemns ²  us, that ³  God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear ¹  that my children are living according to the truth. ² 

He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

Jacob ¹  had marital relations ²  with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban ³  for seven more years. ⁴ 

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons ¹  because he was a son born to him late in life, ²  and he made a special ³  tunic for him.

When Joseph’s ¹  brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, ²  they hated Joseph ³  and were not able to speak to him kindly. ⁴ 

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands. ¹  Only I, the king, will be greater than you. ² 

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.” ¹ 

and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than ¹  is needed for the completion ²  of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!” ³ 

But the men ¹  who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you ¹  just as he said he would!

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. ¹ 

Stand aside ¹  and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, ²  and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”

then he ¹  will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

The judge ¹  may sentence him to forty blows, ²  but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite ³  with contempt.

All Jerusalem was terrified ¹  because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.