Bible Verses About Escaping Destruction

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

The way of the LORD [is] strength to the upright: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

In the multitude of people [is] the king's honor: but in the want of people [is] the destruction of the prince.

Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it.

[What] if God, willing to show [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.

Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.

The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

But the LORD thy God shall deliver them to thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

And it was [so], that after they had carried it thither, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

So they sent and convened all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of [thy] hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.

And the destruction of Ahaziah was from God by coming to Joram: for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?

For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them? [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil found him:

And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.