10 Bible Verses about Saving Oneself
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and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"
One of the criminals who were hanging there, abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us too!"
"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
The high priests too made sport of him to one another with the scribes and said, "He saved others, but he cannot save himself!
He said much more besides in giving his testimony, and urged them to save themselves from that crooked age.
For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.
So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.
