The best Bible verses for protection include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for protection, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."Deuteronomy 23:14
"For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."Deuteronomy 23:14
"You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah"Psalms 32:7
"And he will be their peace. Deliverance and Destruction When the Assyrian invades our land and marches through our fortresses, we will raise against him seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men."Micah 5:5
"In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,"Deuteronomy 32:10
"Like birds hovering overhead, the Lord Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over’ it and will rescue it.”"Isaiah 31:5
"In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness."Psalms 31:1
"The Lord helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him."Psalms 37:40
"Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked."Psalms 97:10
"O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good."Jeremiah 16:19
"The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself—the Lord God Almighty declares: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”"Amos 6:8
"“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered."Daniel 12:1
Scripture returns to protection often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for protection are Deuteronomy 23:14, Psalms 32:7, Psalms 59:1. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to protection across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for protection, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.