'Destroy' in the Bible

and he will turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise, I'll come, strike the land, and utterly destroy it."

And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

“Don’t collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal,

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

and saying, "You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days save yourself! If you're the Son of God, come down from the cross!"

Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Then he asked them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on Sabbath days, to save a life or to destroy it?" But they remained silent.

And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who were going to destroy the sanctuary and rebuild it in three days

Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake, he is the one who will save it [from the consequences of sin and separation from God].

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Look! I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to destroy all the enemy's power, and nothing will ever hurt you.

"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.

And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they could destroy him, because they were afraid of the people.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

but if it is of God [and it appears that it is], you will not be able to stop them; or else you may even be found fighting against God!”

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

you are to hand over this man to Satan for the destruction of his body, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

They have abandoned the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place, and so they destroy the faith of others.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus [acknowledging that He has come in the flesh, but would deny any of the Son’s true nature] is not of God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world.

See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;

But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things.

So the four angels, who had been prepared for the [appointed] hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.