Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both--who knows?
who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
But before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus; and before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh.
Now therefore, my son, love your brethren, and do not despise in your heart your brethren, the sons and daughters of your people, by not taking a wife from among them; for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want; for lewdness is the mother of famine.
Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.
In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.