Bible Verses About Preservation of Life

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

But there shall not an hair of your head perish.