You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.
O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.
Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.
My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.
Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.
<To the chief music-maker on the Gittith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.
The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.
For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.
I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:
And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.
And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth.
Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.
Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?
And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.
The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.
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