Bible Verses About Self-Preservation

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

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

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

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

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

Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

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

For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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.

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

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

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

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.

Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?