'Destroy' in the Bible

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

"Certainly when I punish Israel for their covenant transgressions, I will destroy Bethel's altars. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

I will destroy both the winter and summer houses. The houses filled with ivory will be ruined, the great houses will be swept away." The Lord is speaking!

Look, the sovereign Lord is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob," says the Lord.

At that time," the Lord says, "I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! the advisers from Esau's mountain!

When God saw their actions -- they turned from their evil way of living! -- God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

"In that day," says the Lord, "I will destroy your horses from your midst, and smash your chariots.

I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.

The Lord has issued a decree against you: "Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave -- because you are accursed!"

Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?

"I will destroy everything from the face of the earth," says the Lord.

"I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) I will remove humanity from the face of the earth," says the Lord.

Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, are as good as dead. The Lord has decreed your downfall, Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I will destroy everyone who lives there!"

The Lord will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

"I will send it out," says the Lord who rules over all, "and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones."

So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

They said to him, "He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest."

and declared, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.'"

and saying, "You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

"Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!"

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

It has often thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us."

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.'"

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

"Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God."

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

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

Jesus replied, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

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

If someone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, which is what you are.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

They were only hearing, "The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy."

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge -- the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth."