What Does the Bible Say About Savior?

1 John 4:14 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

Luke 1:47 ESV / 60 helpful votes

And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,

Acts 4:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Timothy 2:3-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Acts 13:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Romans 15:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Titus 2:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Acts 14:1-28 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles. When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them, ...

Luke 2:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Isaiah 53:1-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

Acts 2:38 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 1:20-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Isaiah 63:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

John 11:25-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Mark 10:45 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 2:1-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: ...

Habakkuk 3:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Romans 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

John 10:9-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

1 John 1:1-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Hebrews 10:17-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ...

Luke 1:30-33 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”

Isaiah 43:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.

Isaiah 43:2-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

Romans 3:23-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

John 6:48-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes

I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Luke 4:17-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...

Romans 5:7-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

John 17:1-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

John 10:27-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.”

Hosea 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

1 Timothy 2:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Luke 4:17-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”

46 Bible Verses about Savior

1 John 4:14 ESV / 83 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:47 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 4:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:3-4 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 13:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 15:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:13-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 14:1-28 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:1-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:38 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:20-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 63:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 11:25-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:45 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 2:1-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Habakkuk 3:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:9-11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:1-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 10:17-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:30-33 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 43:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 43:2-4 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:23-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:48-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:17-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:7-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:1-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:27-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:17-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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