28 Bible Verses about Individuals Saving Others

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not seen as yet, moved with godly respect. He prepared an ark to save his house. By his faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.

Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. Let us not kill him, he said.

Do not murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a dry well out here in the desert. Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father.

They answered: You have saved our lives. You have been good to us. We will be the king's slaves.

Dear brothers, do not be sad or angry with yourselves that you sold me. God sent me ahead of you to save lives.

God sent me ahead of you to make sure that you would have descendants on the earth, and to save your lives in an amazing way.

Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.

He supposed his brothers would understand how God by his hand would deliver them but they did not understand.

This Moses whom they refused, saying: Who made you ruler and judge? God sent him to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

They said: An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds. He drew water for us and watered the flock.

They told the messengers: This is what you are to say to the men of Jabesh in Gilead: 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun gets hot, you will be rescued.' When the men of Jabesh received the message, they were overjoyed.

But the people said to Saul: Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death? No! We promise by the living Jehovah that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God's help. So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.

David rescued his two wives. They rescued everyone else the Amalekites captured at Ziklag.

Jehovah gave Israel a savior, so that they became free from the hands of the Aramaeans. The children of Israel were living in their tents as in the past.

Joab went to the house where David was staying and told him: You have made your soldiers ashamed! They saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and wives as well.

Samuel told the entire nation of Israel: If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts you must get rid of the foreign gods you have, including the statues of the goddess Astarte. You must dedicate your lives to Jehovah and serve him only. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.

The Israelites said to Samuel: Do not stop crying to Jehovah our God for us! Ask him to deliver us from the Philistines!

This time tomorrow I will send you a man from the territory of Benjamin. Anoint him to be ruler of my people Israel. He will save my people from the Philistines. I have seen my people suffering and their cry has reached me.

He fought heroically and defeated even the people of Amalek. He saved the Israelites from all attacks.

Do it now! This is what Jehovah said about David: 'I will save my people Israel from the Philistines and all their other enemies through my servant David.'

David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. They drove off their livestock, and overwhelmingly defeated them. So David rescued the people who lived in Keilah.

All the people in all the tribes of Israel argued with one another. They said: The king rescued us from our enemies and saved us from the Philistines. Now he has fled from Absalom and left the country.

Jehovah had not said that the name of Israel was to be taken away from the earth. So he gave them a savior in Jeroboam, the son of Joash.

This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

I broke the fangs of the unrighteous. I made them drop their prey from their teeth.

Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased with himself. He was determined that Daniel not be delivered to him; and he labored all day to rescue him.

The Jews seized this man and were about to kill him. I learned that he is a Roman citizen, so I went with my soldiers and rescued him.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. By his wisdom he delivered the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man.