10 Bible Verses about Saving Oneself
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"You who were going to destroy the Temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
and the people stood looking on. Even the rulers repeatedly taunted him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if this fellow is indeed the Christ of God, His Chosen One!"
And one of the criminals who had been hung there kept reviling him, saying. "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us."
"He saved other," they said, "himself he cannot save. He, the King of Israel! Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him!
In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save.
With many other words he continued to bear testimony, and kept entreating them, saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."
For he who wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation;
Bible Theasaurus
- Oneself (12 instances)
- Saving (51 instances)