Worse

“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.

“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.

Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

But one of his servants replied, “Please, have scouts take five of the horses that remain in the city. Their plight will be no worse than all the Israelites who are left here. You can see that all the Israelites here are doomed. So let us send them and find out.”

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”

Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”

So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”

To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this way?

Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

…while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.