Every wise woman ¹  builds ²  her household, ³  but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress! ¹ 

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

But he said, ‘No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

As ¹  the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

And he replied, ¹  “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

So ¹  when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed ²  him.

But Peter helped him up, ¹  saying, “Stand up. I too am a mere mortal.” ² 

for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, ¹  but are made powerful by God ²  for tearing down strongholds. ³  We tear down arguments ⁴ 

The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! ¹  He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”

I will look after their welfare ¹  and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land ²  and will not uproot them. ³ 

When the argument became ¹  so great the commanding officer ²  feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, ³  he ordered the detachment ⁴  to go down, take him away from them by force, ⁵  and bring him into the barracks. ⁶ 

That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ¹  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”

Rescue me from the mud! Don’t let me sink! Deliver me ¹  from those who hate me, from the deep water!

The Babylonian tyrant ¹  pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. ²  When he catches ³  them in his dragnet, he is very happy. ⁴ 

Meanwhile the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards. ¹ 

So Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net to shore. It was ¹  full of large fish, one hundred fifty-three, ²  but although there were so many, the net was not torn.

save ¹  others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy ²  on others, coupled with a fear of God, ³  hating even the clothes stained ⁴  by the flesh. ⁵ 

The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up ¹  and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.