32 Bible Verses about Kept Alive By Men

Of fowls also of the heavens by seven pairs, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

and that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

Why shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be slaves unto Pharaoh, and give us seed that we may live, and not die, that the land not be desolate.

Then Judah said unto Israel, his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we and thou and also our little ones.

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord that we might be Pharaoh's slaves.

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt; go down there and buy for us from there that we may live, and not die.

And Joseph said unto them the third day, Do this and live, for I fear God.

and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see the sex, if it is a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall give them their lives.

But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but gave the men children their lives.

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing and have given the men children their lives?

And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; also the princes of the congregation swore unto them.

And so did he unto them; he delivered them out of the hand of the sons of Israel, so that they did not slay them.

This we will do to them; we will let them live lest wrath come upon us because of the oath which we swore unto them.

And the princes said unto them, Let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had said unto them.

And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD lives, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, slaying the souls that should not die and giving life to the souls that should not live, by your lying to my people that listen to the lie?

And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life and the life of these fifty thy slaves, be precious in thy sight.

Behold, fire has come down from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties; therefore, let my soul now be precious in thy sight.

But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

And he replied, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will have mercy on me, that the child may live?

Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live. And if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son lives; and he believed, and his whole house.

and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lies at the point of death; come and lay thy hands on her that she may be saved, and she shall live.

Jesus said unto him, Go; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke unto him, and he went.

And he said unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days or to do evil? to save the person or to kill them? But they were silent.

Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good or to do evil? to save a person or to destroy them?

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Of fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.