But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
For it is better forus to die in battle, than to see the evils of our nation, and of the holies: 3:60.
And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to go into hell.
It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
It may be the last time we shall ever meet on earth,' said Nicholas, 'it may be better for me that we should never meet more.
It will be better for Mr Nickleby and for our object that he should remain silent, if he can, till we have said what we have to say.
I knew that it would be better forhim to be watched by George Yolland, and for Harold to be at home, and I had come to love the old man very heartily.
Had she without faith not touched it only, but worn it to her grave, I trow she had been none the better for't.
Tell me, wouldn't it be better for you to love a woman who was expert in the art of loving, and very honest, even if she weren't a virgin?
It is better forus to be captives of the Moors than to die.
Won't it be better for me to sleep in the other one instead of making this one up again?
It would be better for you to go back: instead of hurting them, you might bring me harm.
Yes, if you desire to know, but it would be better for you to desire ignorance and silence.
So it is better for you to remain alive than that we both should meet death.
And Lancelot made a sign to him, and ordered him not to speak of him wherever he might go, for if he should tell that he knew him, it would be better for him to have his eyes put out or his neck broken.
What business is it of the clergyman's if the bricklayers, among themselves, decide that it is better for them in the long run to set only a given number of brick per day?
Isn't it better for England to have that 'longshoreman develop into a scientist than to let some man who employs him make an extra shilling a day out of his labor, even though it should add a little to the exports of England?
The more I think of it, the more I see it would bebetter for papa to speak to him.
Lady Cumnor is a good deal thinner than she was, but we hope her health is better for it.
I think it will be better for you to convey this answer in person to your emperor," said Francis, calmly.
If Hofer hesitates, all will soon despond; and it would be better for us to retrace our steps at once, and allow Bonaparte and the French to trample us again in the dust, instead of lifting our heads like freemen, and fighting for our rights.
But it is better for me to go away, mother--better for us all.
I shall be sorry if he has to pay it; but it will be better forhim to do that, than for me to go to the Penitentiary for nothing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "better for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
