Savior

Savior

God as Savior

God declares that He is the only Savior of His people.

Reference Verse
Isaiah 43:11I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior.
Isaiah 49:26...Then all mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."
Hosea 13:4"But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.

Jesus as Savior

Yet Jesus is designated as the Savior, not occasionally but officially, not nationally but spiritually, and not temporally but eternally.

Reference Verse
Luke 2:11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the Lord.
John 4:42They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world."
Acts 5:31God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 5:23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its savior.
2 Timothy 1:10and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel
Titus 1:4Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior.
Titus 2:13waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and savior Jesus Christ
Titus 3:5-6he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our savior
2 Peter 1:1To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ
2 Peter 1:11For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Peter 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 John 4:14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the savior of the world.

Also, see Matthew 1:21, Acts 13:23, and Philippians 3:20.

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