Bible Verses about 'Ruin'
| Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise iniquity will be your ruin. | Repent and renounce all your transgressions. Otherwise your iniquity will prove to be your downfall. |
| Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin. | He who guards his mouth makes his life secure, but one who talks excessively ensures his own downfall. |
| The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. | A wise man will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to grief. |
| But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. | However, those who want riches fall into temptations and are trapped into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. |
| The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. | The Lord watches over the stranger and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he blocks the way of the wicked. |
| Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. | Some friends can lead us to ruin, but a true friend is closer than a brother. |
| Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” | Do not let anyone lead you astray. “Bad company corrupts good morals.” |
| The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright, but destruction for evildoers. | The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright, but destruction for evildoers. |
| With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. | With his mouth the godless man seeks to ruin his neighbor, but knowledge enables the righteous to be delivered. |
| Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. | Can a woman forget the infant at her breast; or feel no compassion for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. Behold, I have inscribed your name on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before my eyes. |
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In my distress I called upon the Lord;to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
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