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Bible Verses About Survival
Find Bible verses about survival — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about survival?
The Bible addresses survival with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Lamentations 3:22
“It is of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.”
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Genesis 16:13
“She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"”
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Deuteronomy 4:33
“Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?”
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Genesis 47:19
“Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."”
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Acts 27:31
“Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."”
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Genesis 7:23
“Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and tho...”
Genesis 21:15
“The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.”
Job 24:5
“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.”
Psalms 119:87
“They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.”
Genesis 42:2
“He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."”
Genesis 47:15
“When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."”
Genesis 19:20
“See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."”
2 Samuel 15:14
“David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down...”
1 Kings 1:12
“Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.”
1 Samuel 21:13
“He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.”
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Lamentations 5:9 — “We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness....”
Jeremiah 48:6 — “Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness....”
Genesis 43:8 — “Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may liv...”
Genesis 7:18 — “The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the...”
Deuteronomy 33:6 — “"Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few."...”
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