'Save His Life' in the Bible
so that someone who committed manslaughter could flee there, [that is, a person] who killed his neighbor unintentionally and without previously having hostility toward him, and that by escaping to one of these cities he might [claim the right of asylum and] save his life:
“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:
And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
But Satan answered the Lord, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
May the Lord protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!
Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live. He will save his life as a spoil of war.
Flee out of Babylon,Let every one of you save his life!Do not be destroyed in her punishment,For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance;He is going to pay her what she has earned.
“Come out of her midst, My people,And each of you [escape and] save yourselfFrom the fierce anger of the Lord.
{Khaf} All her people seek their bread with heaviness, and look: what precious things every man hath, that giveth he for meat to save his life. Consider, O LORD, and see, how vile I am become.
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Because with falsehood ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, to save his life:
Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood shall be on himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.
Thou son of man, tell the children of thy people, 'The righteousness of the righteous shall not save him, whensoever he turneth away unfaithfully. Again, the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, whensoever he converteth from his ungodliness. And the righteousness of the righteous, shall not save his life, whensoever he sinneth.
Flight will perish from [the] swift and [the] strong person will not muster his strength and [the] warrior will not save his life.
And [the] one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and [the one who is] swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will [the] one who rides the horse save his life.
He that would save his life shall lose it; and he, that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
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.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life,
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.