10 Bible Verses about Saving Oneself

"You who 'destroy the Temple and build one in three days,' save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross!"

'come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer: "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his Chosen One."

And saying as they did so: "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself."

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us," he said.

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the 'King of Israel'! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

In the same way the Chief Priests, with the Teachers of the Law, said to one another in mockery:

With many other words Peter enforced his teaching, while the burden of his exhortations was--"Save yourselves from the perverse spirit of this age."

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

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.