Quotes about Preservation

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.

They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

Now please, come and let me advise you. Save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.