'Destroy' in the Bible

After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.”

“Don’t assume that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

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

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”

“What do You have to do with us, Jesus—Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Immediately the Pharisees went out and started plotting with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Then the chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

“Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others.

“Leave us alone! What do You have to do with us, Jesus—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 on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

Every day He was teaching in the temple complex. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to destroy Him,

He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.”But when they heard this they said, “No—never!”

Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy that one Christ died for by what you eat.

For it is written:I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

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 the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming.

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

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

The nations were angry,but Your wrath has come.The time has comefor the dead to be judgedand to give the rewardto Your servants the prophets,to the saints, and to those who fear Your name,both small and great,and the time has come to destroythose who destroy the earth.