Lexicon :: Strong's G684 - apōleia

“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.

When the disciples saw it, they were indignant. “Why this waste? ” they asked.

But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this perfume been wasted?

“While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,[fn] so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

But Peter told him, “May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

not being frightened in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of destruction for them, but of your salvation ​— ​and this is from God.

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy[fn] comes first and the man of lawlessness[fn] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.

They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

By the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.

“The beast that was and is not, is itself an eighth king, but it belongs to the seven and is going to destruction.