100 Bible Verses About Protection

Bible verses about Protection

In a world often filled with uncertainty, the concept of protection resonates deeply within the human spirit. Scripture offers a timeless source of comfort and strength, revealing God as our ultimate protector. Exploring these verses unveils the multifaceted nature of divine protection – a shield against physical harm, a refuge from emotional turmoil, and a safeguard for our spiritual well-being. Understanding these promises through the lens of faith empowers us to face life's challenges with courage, knowing that we are enveloped in God's unwavering love and care. Let these verses illuminate your path and remind you of the powerful protection available to all who seek it.

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Psalms 141:10 (KJV)

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

God's Shield: Bible Verses for Protection & Safety

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exodus 17:10KJV

Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

Numbers 14:42KJV

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 2:16KJV

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:3KJV

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

Nehemiah 12:25KJV

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Psalms 34:7KJV

The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Proverbs 10:29KJV

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

Psalms 32:10KJV

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

Numbers 2:8KJV

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Psalms 119:85KJV

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Exodus 13:21KJV

Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

Psalms 143:9KJV

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Isaiah 27:4KJV

I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Psalms 30:1KJV

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

Proverbs 19:23KJV

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 7:5KJV

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

Genesis 26:7KJV

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Psalms 60:4KJV

Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Exodus 32:10KJV

Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

Judges 10:14KJV

The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

1 Samuel 2:4KJV

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Psalms 56:13KJV

I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

Joshua 24:5KJV

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

Psalms 141:10KJV

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

2 Samuel 22:7KJV

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

Numbers 9:15KJV

The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Psalms 28:8KJV

But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Deuteronomy 22:26KJV

And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

Joshua 2:14KJV

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:15KJV

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Psalms 59:6KJV

And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

Exodus 13:13KJV

Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Psalms 66:12KJV

But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

Judges 3:15KJV

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Numbers 25:8KJV

And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

Exodus 39:23KJV

For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 14:2KJV

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Psalms 127:4KJV

So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:

Genesis 28:21KJV

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:10KJV

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

Deuteronomy 29:5KJV

But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Genesis 39:21KJV

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.

Exodus 2:8KJV

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Psalms 107:16KJV

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:1KJV

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Psalms 144:2KJV

In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Proverbs 14:26KJV

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:11KJV

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:34KJV

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalms 106:10KJV

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 3:24KJV

Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

2 Samuel 7:8KJV

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:3KJV

Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Job 41:29KJV

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

1 Samuel 19:14KJV

And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Genesis 31:5KJV

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

Judges 20:15KJV

And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:24KJV

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Psalms 25:21KJV

A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

Deuteronomy 11:12KJV

And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,

Exodus 39:34KJV

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psalms 107:2KJV

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Numbers 25:12KJV

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Psalms 18:32KJV

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:18KJV

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:26KJV

And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

Joshua 2:8KJV

Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3:1KJV

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:12KJV

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

Exodus 21:20KJV

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

Isaiah 45:1KJV

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalms 107:20KJV

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Psalms 71:24KJV

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Psalms 31:19KJV

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

2 Samuel 13:20KJV

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

Deuteronomy 33:26KJV

He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Job 40:21KJV

And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Judges 15:15KJV

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 32:1KJV

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

Joshua 10:10KJV

And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Psalms 37:40KJV

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Psalms 7:13KJV

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

Psalms 129:8KJV

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Leviticus 21:2KJV

Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.

Numbers 14:9KJV

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Psalms 25:6KJV

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

Joshua 10:33KJV

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:

Numbers 32:26KJV

And Ishbi–benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

2 Samuel 21:16KJV

To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136:16KJV

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

Isaiah 52:12KJV

To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:17KJV

But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;

Numbers 35:26KJV

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Psalms 121:2KJV

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Job 10:11KJV

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Deuteronomy 1:31KJV

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalms 28:7KJV

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

Psalms 89:17KJV

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;

1 Samuel 30:26KJV

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

Proverbs 22:5KJV

In essence, the Bible verses explored here illuminate a profound truth: God offers unwavering protection to those who trust in Him. From physical safety to spiritual shielding, these passages paint a vivid picture of a powerful and loving God actively involved in safeguarding His children. Whether facing tangible dangers or navigating the complexities of life, these verses provide solace and strength, reminding us that we are not alone. Reflecting on these promises encourages us to cultivate a deeper faith, to boldly approach God in prayer, and to live with confidence knowing that His protective hand is always upon us. May these verses serve as a constant source of comfort, empowering you to walk through life's challenges with unwavering courage and unwavering trust in the Lord.