Our Savior
The title Savior belongs to God alone, for throughout Scripture, it is God who delivers, redeems, and saves His people. Yet the New Testament repeatedly identifies Jesus as Savior, declaring that salvation is found in Him alone. and that He is the promised Savior who came to deliver humanity from sin and death. By applying to Jesus the very title and work that belongs to God, the Bible reveals that Jesus shares God’s divine nature, authority, and power to save.
God: My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My strong hold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence. (2 Sam. 22:3)
Jesus: Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord! (Luke 2:11)
God: They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt, (Psa. 106:21).
Jesus: So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.” After two days, Jesus left for Galilee. (John 4:40-43)
God: For I am the LORD your God, the holy One of Israel, your Savior; (Isa 43:3).
Jesus: I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.' From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised. (Acts 13:22-23)
God: Before Me no God was formed, and after Me none will come. I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me. (Isa. 43:11)
God: Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. (Isa 45:15)
Jesus: For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. (Eph. 5:23)
God: I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion. For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior. (Isa 63:7-8)
Jesus: But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Phil. 3:20) God: Although our iniquities testify against us LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You. O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night? (Jer. 14:7-8)
Jesus: To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Titus 1:4)
God: Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me. (Hosea 13:4)
Jesus: To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. (Titus 1:4) through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:5-7)
God: To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe. (1 Tim. 4:10)
Jesus: But 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. (2 Pet. 3:18)
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. (1 John 4:14)
The passages on this page demonstrate that the Savior of the Old Testament and the Savior revealed in the New Testament are not different saviors, but one. The same God who promised salvation, fulfilled that promise in Jesus Christ. Therefore, when Scripture calls both God and Jesus Savior, it provides another powerful testimony that Jesus and God are One.