10 Bible Verses about Saving Oneself

and said, "You who would pull down the Sanctuary and build a new one within three days, save yourself. If you are God's Son, come down from the cross."

come down from the cross and save yourself."

and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."

"Are *you* the King of the Jews? Save yourself, then!"

Now one of the criminals who had been crucified insulted Him, saying, "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us."

"He saved others," they said, "himself he cannot save! He is the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe in him.

In the same way the High Priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on scoffing at Him, saying to one another, "He has saved others: himself he cannot save!

And with many more appeals he solemnly warned and entreated them, saying, "Escape from this crooked generation."

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it.

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.