Ruth 4:15 He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
1 Samuel 1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
1 Samuel 9:2 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. (WEB BBE)
1 Samuel 14:30 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it be the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying,'Go, serve other gods!' (See RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 15:28 Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. It shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well." (See NIV)
1 Samuel 16:23 It happened, when the evil spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. (See NIV)
1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines. (BBE)
1 Samuel 18:30 And the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, whenever they went forth, that David succeeded better than all the servants of Saul; and his name was much esteemed. (DBY)
1 Samuel 27:1 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 29:4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men? (See NIV)
2 Samuel 10:11 And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help. (BBE)
2 Samuel 11:23 And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town. (BBE)
2 Samuel 14:32 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying,'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'" (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 17:14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 18:3 But the people said, "You shall 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 you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 1:47 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying,'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;' and the king bowed himself on the bed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS)
1 Kings 2:32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 19:4 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 21:2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 5:12 Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Kings 8:8 Then the king said to Hazael, Take an offering with you, and go to see the man of God and get directions from the Lord by him, saying, Am I going to get better from my disease? (BBE)
2 Kings 8:9 So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease? (BBE)
2 Kings 8:10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him. (BBE)
2 Kings 20:7 Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better. (BBE)
1 Chronicles 19:12 And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then come to my help; and if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help. (BBE)
2 Chronicles 13:18 So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers. (BBE)
2 Chronicles 21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Esther 1:19 If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Esther 6:13 And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him. (BBE)
Job 7:15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. (BBE)
Job 10:18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me, (BBE)
Job 35:3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong? (BBE RSV)
Job 41:11 Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! (BBE)
Job 41:29 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. (BBE)
Psalms 37:16 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 63:3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 69:31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 118:8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 118:9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Proverbs 3:14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Proverbs 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 12:9 Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble. Song of Solomon (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 16:32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:12 It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly. (BBE NIV)
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:1 A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 25:7 for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 26:19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport? (BBE)
Proverbs 27:5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 27:10 Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 28:6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 31:29 Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark. (BBE NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. (WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3:22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil. (WEB JPS ASV BBE RSV)
Ecclesiastes 5:5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other. (BBE NAS)
Ecclesiastes 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? (KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:2 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 should take this to heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. (WEB NIV)
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 9:4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools. (WEB ASV NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. (KJV WBS)
Song of Songs 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Song of Songs 4:10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices! (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Song of Songs 5:9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? (WEB NIV)
Isaiah 38:9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease. (BBE)
Isaiah 56:5 to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 56:12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure. (See NIV)