Limitless Word
κρείττωνkreíttōn
GreekG290918 occurrences (KJV)

stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler

KJV renders it: best, better

Where it appears(showing the first 17 of 18)

  • 1 Cor 7:9But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
  • 1 Cor 11:17But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
  • 1 Cor 12:31But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
  • Heb 1:4having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
  • Heb 6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
  • Heb 7:7But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
  • Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
  • Heb 8:6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
  • Heb 9:23It 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.
  • Heb 10:34For 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.
  • Heb 11:16But 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.
  • Heb 11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
  • Heb 11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
  • Heb 12:24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
  • 1 Pet 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
  • 2 Pet 2:21For 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.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.