32 Bible Verses about Kept Alive By Men

Also take seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say: 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but will let you live.

That you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers and sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Moses asked them: Have you spared all the women?

Do not let us die. Do something! Do not let our fields be deserted. Buy us and buy our land in exchange for food. We will be the king's slaves. He will own our land. Give us grain to keep us alive and seed so that we can plant our fields.

Then Judah said to his father Israel: Send the boy along with me. Let us get going so that we will not starve to death.

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

He said: I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die.

On the third day, Joseph said: Do this and live, for I too respect God.

He said: When you help the Hebrew women give birth on the birth stool, if it is a son you shall put him to death. If it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

The midwives respected God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them. They let the boys live.

So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said: Why have you let the boys live?

Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live. The leaders of the congregation ratified it by an oath.

Joshua saved them from the children of Israel. They did not kill them.

This we will do to them. We will even let them live in case we become angry. This is because of the oath we swore to them.

The leaders said to them: Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the entire congregation as the leaders had promised them.

He said: They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Jehovah lives, if you had saved them alive, I will not kill you.

You dishonor me in front of my people for a few handfuls of barley and a few pieces of bread. You kill people who should not die. You spare the lives of people who should not live. You lie to my people who are willing to listen.'

Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded: Man of God, be merciful to my men and me. Spare our lives!

The other officers and their men were killed by fire from heaven. Please, please be merciful to me!

Only Ahaziah's son Jehoash escaped. He was about to be killed with the others, but was rescued by his aunt Jehosheba, who was King Jehoram's daughter and Ahaziah's half sister. She hid him and his nurse in a bedroom in the Temple.

David replied: I fasted and cried while the child lived. I thought Jehovah might be gracious to me and let the child live.

Give the man's wife back to him now. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not give her back, you and all who belong to you are doomed to die.

The father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said: Your son lives. He and his entire household believed.

He pleaded with him saying: My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her that she will be healed and live.

Jesus replied: Go your way. Your son lives! The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

Then he asked the Pharisees, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? Is it right to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.

Jesus said: I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm? Is it lawful to save a life, or to destroy it?

Ahab said to Obadiah: Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.

Bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.