# κρείττων (kreittōn)

Strong’s G2908. 18 New Testament occurrences.

stronger, more excellent.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/kreitton-g2908

## Occurrences

- [1 Corinthians 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/7/9) — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- [1 Corinthians 7:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/7/38) — So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
- [1 Corinthians 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/11/17) — Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
- [Philippians 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/1/4) — Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
- [Hebrews 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/6/9) — But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
- [Hebrews 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/7/7) — And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
- [Hebrews 7:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/7/19) — For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
- [Hebrews 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/7/22) — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
- [Hebrews 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/8/6) — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
- [Hebrews 9:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sacrifices…
- [Hebrews 10:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 and an enduring su…
- [Hebrews 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/11/16) — But now they desire a better 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/11/35) — Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
- [Hebrews 11:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/11/40) — God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
- [Hebrews 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/12/24) — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
- [1 Peter 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-peter/3/17) — For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
- [2 Peter 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-peter/2/21) — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto th…