'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.

He guards the paths of justice;And He preserves the way of His saints (believers).

The highway of the upright turns away and departs from evil;He who guards his way protects his life (soul).

For wisdom is a protection even as money is a protection,But the [excellent] advantage of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves the lives of its possessors.