Bible Verses about 'Than'
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. | For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. | How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. |
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city. | Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. |
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. | A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. |
Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. | Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. |
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man. | It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. |
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
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. | For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. |
Don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. | Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. |
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. | I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice. | Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. |
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. | Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. |
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. | To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. |
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. | What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. |
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble. | Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it. |
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? | Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? |
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. |
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. | No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. |
Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. | Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. |
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. | The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these. |
Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this. | Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. |
Doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself. | Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. |
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. | Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. |
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one. | Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil. |
Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? | Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? |
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Bible verse of the day
Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,“Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and shall give birth to a son.
They shall call his name Immanuel,”
which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”