G2909
G2909 Greek κρείττων kreíttōn
17 occurrences 17 in New Testament

1 Corinthians

7:9

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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.

12:31

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Hebrews

1:4

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

6:9

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

7:7

And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

7:22

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

8:6

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.

9:23

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.

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.

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.

11:35

Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

11:40

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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.

1 Peter

3:17

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

2 Peter

2:21

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.