Strong's Concordance G2909

Original Word: κρείττων
Transliteration: kreíttōn
Phonetic Spelling: krite'-tohn
[κρείττων] comparative of a derivative of G2904; stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler

Usages throughout the bible

1 Corinthians 7:9 - But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better G2909 to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 11:17 - Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, G2909 but for the worse.

1 Corinthians 12:31 - But covet earnestly the best G2909 gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Philippians 1:23 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Hebrews 1:4 - Being made so much better than G2909 the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Hebrews 6:9 - But, beloved, we are persuaded better things G2909 of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Hebrews 7:7 - And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. G2909

Hebrews 7:19 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better G2909 hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

Hebrews 7:22 - By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better G2909 testament.

Hebrews 8:6 - But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better G2909 covenant, which was established upon better G2909 promises.

Hebrews 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 G2909 sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 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 G2909 and an enduring substance.

Hebrews 11:16 - But now they desire a better G2909 country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Hebrews 11:35 - Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better G2909 resurrection:

Hebrews 11:40 - God having provided some better G2909 thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 12:24 - And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things G2909 than that of Abel.

1 Peter 3:17 - For it is better, G2909 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 G2909 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.