17 Bible Verses about Escaping

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

Our God is a God of salvation,
and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.

So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to engage the Philistines. Therefore, that place was named the Rock of Separation.

David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except 400 young men who got on camels and fled.

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Ehud escaped while the servants waited. He crossed over the Jordan near the carved images and reached Seirah.

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the waters of the flood.

However, Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the Lord’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the Lord’s presence.

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.