But in giving you this order, there is one thing about which I am not pleased: it is that when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,
And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.
And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.
For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
And she said to him, Not so, my brother, for this great wrong in sending me away is worse than what you did to me before. But he gave no attention to her.
So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.
And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour.
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.
And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.
And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,
And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.
Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;
But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
But if the disease in his skin becomes worse after he has been made clean,
And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more:
Then he goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they go in, and take their places there: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.
And he, in answer, said to them, Are you of the opinion that these Galilaeans were worse than all other Galilaeans, because these things were done to them?
Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.
And had undergone much at the hands of a number of medical men, and had given all she had, and was no better, but even worse,
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.
Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.
And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.
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 the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
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