" 'Afterward I will return, and rebuild David's fallen dwelling. I will rebuild its very ruins, and set it up again,

Ruin and wretchedness mark their paths,

And David said, "Let their feasting prove a snare and a trap to them, Their ruin and their retribution.

I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.

For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died.

For this overscrupulous brother, for whom Christ died, is ruined by what you call your knowledge.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

They will be punished with eternal ruin and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and his glorious might,

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. For some people have let that go and have had their faith ruined,

But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin.

speaking of it as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which ignorant, unsteadfast people twist to their own ruin, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures.