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G2908κρείσσωνkreissōn
greaterPart of speech: Greek Adjective
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But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
κρεῖττον kreitton “better”
So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.
κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”
But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
κρεῖσσον kreisson “better”
But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
κρεῖσσον· kreisson “better;”
having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
κρείττων kreittōn “superior”
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
κρείσσονα kreissona “better”
But without any dispute the less is blessed by the better.
κρείττονος kreittonos “superior”
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”
By so much has Jesus become the collateral of a better covenant.
κρείττονος kreittonos “of a better”
But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
κρείττονός kreittonos “of a better”κρείττοσιν kreittosin “better”
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
κρείττοσιν kreittosin “with better”
For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
κρείττονα kreittona “a better”
But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
κρείττονος kreittonos “to a better [one]”
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
κρείττονος kreittonos “a better”
God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
κρεῖττόν kreitton “better”
to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
κρεῖττον kreitton “better thing”
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
κρεῖττον kreitton “[It is] better”
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
κρεῖττον kreitton “Better”