The Flight to Egypt

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’”

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

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

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

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

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”

And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

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

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”

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

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’

for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”

And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,

nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

Our Heavenly Dwelling

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.

They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

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

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”