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‘Ruin’ in the Bible – All 71 Bible verses / Bible passages

Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Ruin’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.

The term ‘Ruin’ occurs 71 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Exodus

Exodus 34:12 Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin.Exodus 34:12

Number of the word / term Ruin in Exodus: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Leviticus

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and I will break apart your false images. You will fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul will abominate you:Leviticus 26:30

Leviticus 26:32 And I will utterly ruin your land, and your enemies shall be stupefied at it, when they will have become its inhabitants.Leviticus 26:32

Number of the word / term Ruin in Leviticus: 2

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 7:10 and promptly repaying those who hate him, so as to utterly ruin them, without further delay, quickly rendering to them what they deserve.Deuteronomy 7:10

Deuteronomy 7:16 You shall devour all the peoples, which the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall not spare them, neither shall you serve their gods, lest they be your ruin.Deuteronomy 7:16

Deuteronomy 9:3 Therefore, you shall know today that the Lord your God himself will pass over before you, like a devouring and consuming fire, to crush and to wipe away and to utterly ruin them before your face, quickly, just as he has spoken to you.Deuteronomy 9:3

Number of the word / term Ruin in Deuteronomy: 3

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Joshua

Joshua 6:20 Therefore, with all the people shouting, and the trumpets blaring, after the voice and the sound increased in the ears of the multitude, the walls promptly fell to ruin. And each one climbed up at the place which was opposite where he was. And they seized the city.Joshua 6:20

Number of the word / term Ruin in Joshua: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Judges

Judges 2:3 For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin.”Judges 2:3

Judges 5:22 The hoofs of the horses were broken, while the strongest of the enemies fled away with fury, and rushed on to ruin.Judges 5:22

Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod from these, and he kept it in his city, Ophrah. And all of Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gideon and to all his house.Judges 8:27

Number of the word / term Ruin in Judges: 3

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 1 Samuel

1 Samuel 4:17 And responding, the man reported and said: “Israel has fled before the Philistines. And a great ruin has happened to the people. Moreover, your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, also have died. And the ark of God has been captured.”1 Samuel 4:17

Number of the word / term Ruin in 1 Samuel: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 2 Samuel

2 Samuel 15:14 And David said to his servants, who were with him in Jerusalem: “Rise up, let us flee! For otherwise there will be no escape for us from the face of Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest perhaps, upon arriving, he may seize us, and force ruin upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”2 Samuel 15:14

Number of the word / term Ruin in 2 Samuel: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 2 Kings

2 Kings 19:25 But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.2 Kings 19:25

Number of the word / term Ruin in 2 Kings: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 28:23 immolated victims to the gods of Damascus, those who had struck him. And he said: “The gods of the kings of Syria assist them, and so I will please them with victims, and they will help me.” But to the contrary, they had been the ruin of him and of all Israel.2 Chronicles 28:23

Number of the word / term Ruin in 2 Chronicles: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Job

Job 15:32 Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.Job 15:32

Job 18:4 You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?Job 18:4

Job 18:14 Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.Job 18:14

Job 27:15 Whatever will remain of him will be buried in the ruins, and his widows will not weep.Job 27:15

Job 31:29 if I have been glad at the ruin of him who hated me and have exulted that evil found him,Job 31:29

Number of the word / term Ruin in Job: 5

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Psalm

Psalm 9:15 I will exult in your salvation. The Gentiles have become trapped in the ruin that they made. Their foot has been caught in the same snare that they themselves had hidden.Psalm 9:15

Psalm 54:5 Turn back the evils upon my adversaries, and ruin them by your truth.Psalm 54:5

Psalm 71:1 A Psalm of David. Of the sons of Jonadab and the former captives. In you, O Lord, I have hoped; do not let me be brought to ruin forever.Psalm 71:1

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be in utter ruin. In one generation, may his name be wiped away.Psalm 109:13

Psalm 140:11 A talkative man will not be guided aright upon the earth. Evils will drag the unjust man unto utter ruin.Psalm 140:11

Number of the word / term Ruin in Psalm: 5

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Proverbs

Proverbs 12:13 For the sins of the lips draw ruin to the evil. But the just shall escape from distress.Proverbs 12:13

Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, so that he may turn aside from the ruin of death.Proverbs 13:14

Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, so as to turn aside from the ruin of death.Proverbs 14:27

Proverbs 17:5 Whoever despises the poor rebukes his Maker. And whoever rejoices in the ruin of another will not go unpunished.Proverbs 17:5

Proverbs 17:16 What does it profit the foolish to have riches, when he is not able to buy wisdom? Whoever makes his house high seeks ruin. And whoever shuns learning shall fall into evils.Proverbs 17:16

Proverbs 17:19 Whoever dwells on discord loves disputes. And whoever exalts his door seeks ruin.Proverbs 17:19

Proverbs 18:7 The mouth of the foolish is his destruction, and his own lips are the ruin of his soul.Proverbs 18:7

Proverbs 20:25 It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.Proverbs 20:25

Proverbs 24:17 When your enemy will fall, do not be glad, and do not let your heart exult in his ruin,Proverbs 24:17

Proverbs 24:22 For their perdition shall up rise suddenly. And who knows what ruin will be for each of them?Proverbs 24:22

Proverbs 26:28 A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.Proverbs 26:28

Proverbs 28:12 In the exultation of the just, there is great glory. When the impious reign, men are brought to ruin.Proverbs 28:12

Proverbs 29:16 When the impious are multiplied, crimes will be multiplied. But the just shall see their ruin.Proverbs 29:16

Number of the word / term Ruin in Proverbs: 13

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dying flies ruin the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a brief and limited foolishness.Ecclesiastes 10:1

Number of the word / term Ruin in Ecclesiastes: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Isaiah

Isaiah 3:6 For a man will apprehend his brother, from the household of his own father, saying: “The vestment is yours. Be our leader, but let this ruin be under your hand.”Isaiah 3:6

Isaiah 8:14 And so shall he be a sanctification to you. But he will be a stone of offense and a rock of scandal to the two houses of Israel, and a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.Isaiah 8:14

Isaiah 13:5 to those who are arriving from a far off land, from the heights of the heavens. It is the Lord and the instruments of his fury, so that he may bring ruin to all the earth.Isaiah 13:5

Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and it will be like a heap of stones in ruin.Isaiah 17:1

Isaiah 17:2 The cities in ruin will be left for the flocks, and they will take rest there, and there will be no one who may terrify them.Isaiah 17:2

Isaiah 23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: never before was there such a people! Assur founded it. They have led away its strong ones into captivity. They have dug under its houses. They have left it in ruins.Isaiah 23:13

Isaiah 51:3 Therefore, the Lord will console Zion, and he will console all its ruins. And he will turn her desert into a place of delights, and her wilderness into a garden of the Lord. Gladness and rejoicing will be found in her, thanksgiving and a voice of praise.Isaiah 51:3

Isaiah 61:4 And they will rebuild the deserted places of past ages, and they will raise up the ruins of antiquity, and they will repair the desolate cities, which had been dissipated for generation after generation.Isaiah 61:4

Isaiah 64:11 The house of our sanctification and of our glory, where our fathers praised you, has been completely consumed by fire, and all our admirable things have been turned into ruins.Isaiah 64:11

Number of the word / term Ruin in Isaiah: 9

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Jeremiah

Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore, thus says the Lord: “Behold I will bring this people to utter ruin, and they will fall, with their fathers and sons; neighbor and relative will perish together.”Jeremiah 6:21

Jeremiah 46:16 He has multiplied those in ruin, and each man has fallen beside his neighbor. And they will say: ‘Rise up, and let us return to our own people and to the land of our nativity, away from the face of the sword of the dove.Jeremiah 46:16

Number of the word / term Ruin in Jeremiah: 2

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Ezekiel

Ezekiel 5:17 And I will send among you famine and very harmful beasts, even unto utter ruin. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you. And I will bring the sword over you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”Ezekiel 5:17

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge each one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities, and then iniquity will not be your ruin.Ezekiel 18:30

Ezekiel 21:15 and to waste away in heart, and which multiplies ruin. At all their gates, I have presented the consternation of the sword, which has been sharpened and polished so as to shine, which has been dressed for the slaughter.Ezekiel 21:15

Ezekiel 26:15 Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: “Will not the islands shake at the sound of your ruin and at the groans of your slain, when they will have been cut down in your midst?Ezekiel 26:15

Ezekiel 27:27 Your riches, and your treasures, and your versatile equipment, your sailors and your navigators, who handle your goods and who were first among your people, likewise your men of war, who were among you, and your entire multitude that is in your midst: they will fall in the heart of the sea on the day of your ruin.Ezekiel 27:27

Ezekiel 31:13 All the birds of the air lived upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the countryside were among his branches.Ezekiel 31:13

Ezekiel 31:16 I shook the Gentiles with the sound of his ruin, when I led him down to hell, with those who were descending into the pit. And all the trees of delights, the finest and best in Lebanon, all that were irrigated with waters, were consoled in the deepest parts of the earth.Ezekiel 31:16

Ezekiel 36:4 because of this, O mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the torrents, and to the valleys, and to the deserts, and to the ruins, and to the forsaken cities, which have been depopulated and ridiculed by the remainder of the nations all around:Ezekiel 36:4

Ezekiel 38:20 And before my face there shall be stirred up: the fish of the sea, and the flying things of the air, and the beasts of the field, and every crawling thing that moves across the soil, and all the men who are upon the face of the earth. And the mountains will be overturned, and the hedges will fall, and every wall will fall in ruin to the ground.Ezekiel 38:20

Number of the word / term Ruin in Ezekiel: 9

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Hosea

Hosea 2:5 For their mother has been fornicating; she who conceived them has been brought to ruin. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’Hosea 2:5

Hosea 9:8 The watcher of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet has become a snare of ruin over all his ways; insanity is in the house of his God.Hosea 9:8

Number of the word / term Ruin in Hosea: 2

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Joel

Joel 1:12 The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.Joel 1:12

Number of the word / term Ruin in Joel: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Obadiah

Obadiah 1:13 And neither shall you enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin. And neither shall you also show disdain for his troubles in the day of his desolation. And you shall not send out against his army in the day of his desolation.Obadiah 1:13

Number of the word / term Ruin in Obadiah: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Micah

Micah 5:10 And it will be in that day, says the Lord: I will take away your horses from your midst, and I will utterly ruin your four-horse chariots.Micah 5:10

Number of the word / term Ruin in Micah: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Zechariah

Zechariah 14:15 And, like the ruin of the horse, and the mule, and the camel, and the donkey, and all the beasts of burden, which will have been in those encampments, so will be this ruination.Zechariah 14:15

Zechariah 14:18 But if even the family of Egypt will go not up, nor approach, neither will it be upon them, but there will be ruin, by which the Lord will strike all the Gentiles, who will not go up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.Zechariah 14:18

Number of the word / term Ruin in Zechariah: 2

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Matthew

Matthew 7:27 And the rains descended, and the floods rose up, and the winds blew, and rushed upon that house, and it did fall, and great was its ruin.”Matthew 7:27

Number of the word / term Ruin in Matthew: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Luke

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and he said to his mother Mary: “Behold, this one has been set for the ruin and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and as a sign which will be contradicted.Luke 2:34

Luke 6:49 But whoever hears and does not do: he is like a man building his house upon the soil, without a foundation. The river rushed against it, and it soon fell down, and the ruin of that house was great.”Luke 6:49

Number of the word / term Ruin in Luke: 2

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book Acts

Acts 15:16 ‘After these things, I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down. And I will rebuild its ruins, and I will raise it up,Acts 15:16

Number of the word / term Ruin in Acts: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 2 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then that iniquitous one shall be revealed, the one whom the Lord Jesus shall bring to ruin with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy at the brightness of his return:2 Thessalonians 2:8

Number of the word / term Ruin in 2 Thessalonians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Ruin’ in the book 2 Peter

2 Peter 2:12 Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption,2 Peter 2:12

Number of the word / term ‘Ruin’ in 2 Peter: 1

These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.

Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 71

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