It were better # 42_LUK_17_02  It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. ## It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 
it were better # 46_1CO_09_15  But I have used none of these things_ neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me_ for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. ## But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 
it were better # 40_MAT_18_06  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ## But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.