18 Bible Verses about Kept Alive By God
Most Relevant Verses
And now don’t be worried or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.
The Lord will keep him and preserve him;
he will be blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
Lord, You brought me up from Sheol;
You spared me from among those
going down to the Pit.
The Lord will send His faithful love by day;
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.
The life of every living thing is in His hand,
as well as the breath of all mankind.
For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
If He put His mind to it
and withdrew the spirit and breath He gave,
every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.
“Because I, Yahweh, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
But He answered, “It is written:
Man must not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.”
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”
Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodness
in the land of the living.
For You delivered me from death,
even my feet from stumbling,
to walk before God in the light of life.