'Preserve' in the Bible

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.”

On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.”

Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our fathers, preserve this forever in the intentions of the heart of Your people, and direct their heart to You;

You, O Lord, will keep them;You will preserve him from this generation forever.

A Mikhtam of David.Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,For I wait for You.

You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me;Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

You will prolong the king’s life;His years will be as many generations.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You;According to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are doomed to die.

Preserve my soul, for I am a godly man;O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men;Preserve me from violent men

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;Preserve me from violent menWho have purposed to trip up my feet.

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his back,But the lips of the wise will protect them.

Loyalty and truth preserve the king,And he upholds his throne by righteousness.

The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,But He overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

Thus says the Lord,“Preserve justice and do righteousness,For My salvation is about to comeAnd My righteousness to be revealed.

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature to hunt down lives! Will you hunt down the lives of My people, but preserve the lives of others for yourselves?

Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,

“You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,And your vileness will be in your midst.You will try to remove for safekeeping,But you will not preserve anything,And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.