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Bible Verses About Survival

This collection includes 50 passages about Survival. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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.

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But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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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.

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

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

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If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

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And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

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But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

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For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

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Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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

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They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

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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.

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

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He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

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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.

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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.

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The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

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And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

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

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In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

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And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

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For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

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

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Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

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For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

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And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

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And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

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And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

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Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

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They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

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