10 Bible Verses about Saving Oneself

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."

One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,