52 Bible Verses about Destruction
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The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.
Mischief in her midst: oppression and deceit will not depart from her wide place.
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;
And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction:
(For many walk, of whom I said to you often, and now also say weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.
And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build:
See, I appointed thee this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant
And Israel will vow a vow to Jehovah, and will say, If giving, thou wilt give this people into my hand, and I exterminated their cities. And Jehovah will hear to the voice of Israel, and he will give the Canaanite, and he will exterminate them and their cities: and he will call the name of the place Hormah.
And Judah will go up with Simeon his brother, and they will smite the Canaanite dwelling in Zephath, and they will exterminate it, and he will call the name of the city, Hormah.
Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways.
And the cities being inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and they knew that I am Jehovah.
And now ye shall not be mocker's lest your bonds shall be strong: for I heard a completion and decision from the Lord. Jehovah of armies upon all the earth.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and with sorrow, the cup of astonishment and desolation, the cup of thy sister Shomeron.
As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly.
And strong his power, and not in his power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and he prospered, and did, and he destroyed the strong ones and the holy people.
Arise ye, and go, for this is not the rest: because it was defiled it will destroy, and with a sore destruction.
Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.
For if what I destroy, these I build again, I unite myself with the transgressor.
From Thematic Bible
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Destruction
And he sent his servants to those having been called to the nuptial feast: and they would not come. And again, he sent other servants, saying, Say to the called: Behold, I have prepared my supper; my bulls and stall-fed killed, and all prepared: come to the nuptials. And they, not having heeded, departed, one truly to his own field, and one to his traffic: read more.
And the rest, having seized his servants, were insolent, and killed them. And the king, having heard, was angry, and having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Calves of jeroboam » Predictions respecting » Destruction
And the heights of vanity were destroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and weeds shall come up upon their altars; and they said to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall upon us.
For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.
Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Destruction
For the evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths
eternal Death » Is called » Destruction
And if God, willing anger to be shown, and his power to be made known, endured in much long suffering the vessels of anger put in proper order for destruction:
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Destruction » Sudden
For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two?
For this, his destruction shall come suddenly; in a moment he shall be broken, and none healing.
For this, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach falling, gushing out in a high wall, of which the breaking will come suddenly at a moment
For also man knew not his time: as the fishes being laid hold of in an evil net, and as the birds laid hold of in the snare, as they, the sons of men being snared for an evil time, as it will fall upon them suddenly.
Destruction » Example of
And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all.
And Jehovah will hear to the voice of Israel, and he will give the Canaanite, and he will exterminate them and their cities: and he will call the name of the place Hormah.
And we shall take all his cities in that time, and we shall exterminate every city of men and women and the little ones; we left none to escape.
And we shall exterminate them as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, exterminating men, women, and little ones.
And they will devote all which in the city, from man and even to woman, and from the youth even to the old man, and ox and sheep and ass, to the mouth of the sword.
Destruction » Who shall not be destroyed
And Abraham will draw near, and will say, Wilt thou also destroy the just with the wicked Perhaps there is fifty just in the midst of the city: wilt thou also destroy and not forgive the place for the sake of the fifty just which are within it? Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment? read more.
And Jehovah will say, If I shall find in Sodom fifty just, in the midst of the city, I forgive all the place for their sakes. And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes. If the fifty just shall lack five: wilt thou destroy for sake of five all the city? And he will say, I will not destroy, if I shall find there forty and five. And he added yet to speak to him, and he will say, If forty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do for sake of forty. And he will say, Now will it not kindle to the Lord, and I will speak: If thirty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not do, if I shall find thirty there. And he will say, Behold now, I have begun to speak to the Lord If twenty shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of twenty. And he will say, Now will it not be angry to the Lord, and I will speak only this once: If ten shall be found there? And he will say, I will not destroy for sake of ten.
Thou shalt not fear, O my servant Jacob, says Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a completion among all nations where I thrust thee away there: and I will not make a completion with thee, and I will correct thee for judgment; and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.
In straitness to thee, and all these words found thee in the last of the days, and thou didst turn to Jehovah thy God and heardest to his voice; For Jehovah thy God a merciful God; he will not desert thee, and he will not destroy thee, and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware to them.
Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine will be found in the cluster, and he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it, for a blessing in it: thus will I do for sake of my servant, to not destroy them all. And I brought forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah he shall inherit my mountain: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell their. And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me.
And thou my servant Jacob shall not fear, says Jehovah, and thou Israel shalt not be dismayed: for behold me saving thee from far off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob turned back and rested, and was quiet, and none making afraid. For I am with thee, says Jehovah, to serve thee: for I will make a completion to all nations where I scattered thee there, but with thee I will not make a completion: and I corrected thee for judgment, and acquitting, I will not let thee go unpunished.
Destruction » Utter
For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.
And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.
And one strong angel lifted up a stone as a great millstone, and cast into the sea, saying, Thus with excitement shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and be found no more.
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
For the wrath of Jehovah is upon all nations, And anger upon all their army: he devoted them to destruction, he gave them to slaughter.
Destruction » Why people are destroyed
And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days. And Jehovah will lament that he made man in the earth, and he will be grieved at his heart And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.
For this my people were carried into exile from not knowing; and their honor, men of famine, and their multitude dry with thirst
And Moab was destroyed from a people, for he was magnified against Jehovah.
My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I
Destruction » What destroys people
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: and the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
The violence of the unjust shall sweep them away, for they refuse to do judgment
For we brought nothing into the world, it is manifest that neither are we able to carry anything out. And having sustenance and covering, with these let us be contented. And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
Destruction » When sudden destruction shall come
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you. For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes. For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
Destruction » What precedes destruction
Destruction » A large amount
Wisdom is good above the instruments of encounter: and one sinning will destroy much good.
Destruction » Who studies destruction
Thou shalt not envy against men of evil, thou shalt not desire to be with them. For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.
Destruction » Who shall destroy many
And in the latter state of their kingdom as those transgressing being completed, a king strong of face and understanding enigmas, shall stand up. And strong his power, and not in his power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and he prospered, and did, and he destroyed the strong ones and the holy people. And by his intelligence and he caused deceit to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify in his heart, and in security he shall destroy many: and against the Chief of chiefs he shall stand; and without hand shall he be broken.
Destruction » Who seeks destruction
Destruction » Who destroys their own soul
He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.
Destruction » The way that leads to destruction
Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.
Hell » Future punishment » Destruction » From presence of God
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Judgments » Different kinds of » Destruction
And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust.
The face of Jehovah against those doing evil, to cut off their remembrance from the earth.
Is not destruction to the evil one? and strangeness to those working iniquity?
And the unjust shall be cut off from the land, and they transgressing shall be wiped off from it.
Pride » Is followed by » Destruction
Prosperity » Perils of » Destruction
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.
Redemption » Is from » Destruction
Topics on Destruction
Destruction Of All Creatures
Genesis 6:7And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.
Destruction Of Babylon
Jeremiah 51:55For Jehovah laid Babel waste, and he destroyed from her the great voice: and the billows roared as many waters, and a noise of their voice was given.
Destruction Of Cities
Leviticus 26:31And I gave your cities a desert, and I laid waste your holy places, and I will not smell upon the odor of your sweetness.
Destruction Of Countries
Isaiah 1:7Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.
Destruction Of Houses
Leviticus 14:45And he tore down the house, and its stones, and its wood, and all the dust of the house: and he brought forth without the city, into an unclean place.
Destruction Of Jerusalem
2 Kings 21:12For this, thus said Jehovah the God of Israel, Behold me bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, which all hearing it, his two ears shall tingle.
Destruction Of Jerusalem's Wall
2 Chronicles 36:19And they will burn the house of God and break down the walls of Jerusalem, and burn all her palaces in fire, and all her precious vessels for destruction.
Destruction Of Plants
Jeremiah 1:10See, I appointed thee this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant
Destruction Of Satan's Works
Zephaniah 1:4And I stretched out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, with the name of the obscurations with the priests
Destruction Of Strongholds
Isaiah 23:11He stretched forth his hand over the sea, he disquieted kingdoms: Jehovah commanded to Canaan to destroy her fortress.
Destruction Of The Church
Acts 8:3And Saul abused the church, going into houses, and drawing out men and women, delivered to prison.
Destruction Of The Temple
1 Kings 9:8And this house shall be high, every one passing by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss: and they said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land and to this house?
Destruction Of The Wicked
Psalm 37:38And they transgressing were destroyed together: the latter state of the unjust was cut of
Earth, Destruction Of
Matthew 24:35The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words should not pass away.
Sudden Destruction
1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.