Haller's Concordance: LESS

• What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. Gen. 18:28
• But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. Ex. 12:4
• And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less. Ex. 16:17
• And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat. Ex. 16:18
• The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits. Lev. 25:16
• Balaam answered: If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot alter the word of the Lord my God, to speak either more or less. Num. 22:18
• To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to the fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall a possession be delivered: Num. 26:54
• And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance. Num. 35:8
• Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less: Dt. 25:13
• Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less. Dt. 25:14
• And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. 1 Ki. 25:36
• Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built? 3 Ki. 8:27
• Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built? 2 Par. 6:18
• But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction. Jud. 8:27
• That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth. Job 11:6
• How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm? Job 25:6
• Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: Ps. 8:5
• And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it. Eccl. 8:17
• But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him. Wis. 13:6
• And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment. Wis. 17:12
• Make thy prayer before the face of the Lord, and offend less. Sir. 17:22
• He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil. Sir. 19:5
• Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High. Sir. 19:21
• The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom. Sir. 38:25
• Even when it was whole it was not fit for work: how much less, when the fire hath devoured and consumed it, shall any work be made of it? Ezec. 15:5
• But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways. Ezec. 16:47
• You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house. Agg. 1:9
• For their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple. 2 Ma. 15:18
• So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their hearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly cheered with the presence of God. 2 Ma. 15:27
• It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth: Mk. 4:31
• And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joseph and Salome, Mk. 15:40
• Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. Lk. 7:47
• But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less. 1 Cor. 8:8
• And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 1 Cor. 12:23
• For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles. 2 Cor. 11:5
• They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 2 Cor. 11:23
• For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury. 2 Cor. 12:13
• But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less. 2 Cor. 12:15
• Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband. 1 Tim. 5:9
• And without all contradiction, that which is less is blessed by the better. Heb. 7:7
• And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, that which is plentiful is of less worth, for that which is more rare is more precious. 4 Esd. 7:58