'Destroy' in the Bible

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.

The spirit has often thrown him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have pity on us and help us!"

"We ourselves heard him say, "I will destroy this sanctuary made by human hands, and in three days I will build another one not made by human 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

"Oh, no! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

Then Jesus asked them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?"

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?"

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.

He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it 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.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to 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.

For if your brother is being hurt by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not destroy the person for whom the Messiah died by what you eat.

Do not destroy God's action for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person stumble because of what you eat.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will reject."

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

If anyone destroys God's sanctuary, God will destroy him, for God's sanctuary is holy. And you are that sanctuary!

For you have heard about my earlier life in Judaism how I kept violently persecuting God's church and was trying to destroy it.

The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy with the breath of his mouth, rendering him powerless by the manifestation 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.

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?

The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.

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

The nations were angry, but the time for your wrath has come. It is time for the dead to be judged to reward your servants, the prophets, the saints, and all who fear your name, both unimportant and important, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."