'Preserves' in the Bible

O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!The Lord preserves the faithful [those with moral and spiritual integrity]And fully repays the [self-righteousness of the] arrogant.

You who love the Lord, hate evil;He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers),He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

The Lord protects the simple (childlike);I was brought low [humbled and discouraged], and He saved me.

The Lord keeps all who love Him,But all the wicked He will destroy.

The Lord protects the strangers;He supports the fatherless and the widow;But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.