17 Bible Verses about Escaping

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

So Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. Therefore that place is called Sela Hammahlekoth.

But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"

Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.

Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the Lord. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the Lord.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.