Bible verses about "destruction" | JPS_ASV_Byz

¹ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; ² To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding; ³ To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity; ⁴ To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion; ⁵ That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels; ⁶ To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline. ⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother; ⁹ For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹ If they say: 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk for the innocent without cause; ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; ¹³ We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil; ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse' - ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path; ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ For in vain the net is spread in the eyes of any bird; ¹⁸ And these lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, she uttereth her voice in the broad places; ²¹ She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words: ²² 'How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness? And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. ²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended, ²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; ²⁶ I also, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh; ²⁷ When your dread cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when trouble and distress come upon you. ²⁸ Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me. ²⁹ For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD; ³⁰ They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. ³² For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them. ³³ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.'

¹⁰ (58:11) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

² Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. ³ A fire goeth before Him, and burneth up His adversaries round about. ⁴ His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled. ⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶ The heavens declared His righteousness, and all the peoples saw His glory. ⁷ Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of things of nought; bow down to Him, all ye gods.

⁹ But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

¹⁹ whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

²⁸ And fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.

¹³ Enter ye in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. ¹⁴ How narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.