Quotes about Protection
Blessed is he who is skilled with the sword. It will keep him from falling.
— Perry Stone
What I discovered, and what I want to pass along to you in this book, is that this view of the Bible does not come from the Bible but from an anxiety over protecting the Bible and so regulating the faith of those who read it.
— Peter Enns
And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
— Genesis 3:21
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
— Genesis 3:24
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
— Genesis 4:15
But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
— Genesis 6:18
Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
— Genesis 6:20
And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
— Genesis 7:7
On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—
— Genesis 7:13
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
— Genesis 9:11
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
— Genesis 9:23
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
— Genesis 12:11