125 Bible verses about God's Protection

There's nothing quite like the peace you find in God, knowing you're sheltered under His wing, safe and secure. Worries just seem to melt away, and you learn to walk with a quiet confidence.

His protection is unlike anything anyone else can offer. Human strength is limited, but God knows everything, sees everything, and can be everywhere, even places no one else can reach. Trust in Him, ask for His protection, and He will watch over you, holding you steady with His right hand.

If you consistently seek His protection, He’ll send His angels to surround you, and no harm will come your way. He’ll be your refuge, your calm in the storm. When those who seek your downfall gather, He will raise the banner of victory on your behalf.

Turn to Him, because there’s no one else on this earth who can conquer your fears and help you through your struggles. Put God first in your home, above your children and everyone else you love, and you’ll see Him become your unshakable fortress.

You won't have to run or live in uncertainty and worry, because God protects those who hope in Him and believe in His Word. He doesn’t lie, and He never breaks a promise. Once you decide to walk with Him, keep His commandments, and follow His teachings, you’ll experience true peace, just like Isaiah 26:3 says, “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”

So today, let’s fill ourselves with peace, shake off the chains of fear, and believe that God is our protector, watching over us as closely as He guards the apple of His eye. When negative thoughts creep in, fight back with scripture and remember Psalm 91:9-12: “If you say, ‘The Lord is my refuge,’ and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul.

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth, and even for evermore.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: And thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, That my feet did not slip.

Preserve me, O God: For in thee do I put my trust.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: For thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

The name of the LORD is a strong tower: The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; My glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear What man shall do unto me.

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: What can man do unto me?

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defence; I shall not be moved.

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My saviour; thou savest me from violence.

I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, Even the most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: And none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and are punished.

As for God, his way is perfect; The word of the LORD is tried: He is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

But I will sing of thy power; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: For thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

I have set the LORD always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

Blessed be the LORD my strength, Which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

There shall no evil happen to the just: But the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

for the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, And delivereth them.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thine hand upon me.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear What man shall do unto me.

The fear of man bringeth a snare: But whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

The God of my rock; in him will I trust: He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, My saviour; thou savest me from violence.

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

In God I will praise his word, In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, From whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the LORD, Which made heaven and earth.

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

He keepeth the paths of judgment, And preserveth the way of his saints.

He that is our God is the God of salvation; And unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man; Who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

But the LORD is my defence; And my God is the rock of my refuge.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses.

The LORD is thy keeper: The LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence.

The LORD preserveth all them that love him: But all the wicked will he destroy.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, And shall keep thy foot from being taken.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.

but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: The LORD will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

and he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not your's, but God's.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant.

It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.

It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in princes.

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, In those that hope in his mercy.

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth, and even for evermore.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.

My goodness, and my fortress; My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I trust; Who subdueth my people under me.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.

O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.

Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: He is their help and their shield.

The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: Therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, Even the most High, thy habitation;

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, And shall be quiet from fear of evil.

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, And strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as an high wall in his own conceit.

They that trust in the LORD Shall be as mount Zion, Which cannot be removed, But abideth for ever.

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: They trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Seek the LORD and his strength, Seek his face continually.

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence.

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