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"Was anyone in the Bible ever told to know Christ as their “personal savior”? ... Thanks sincerely for your help."

With your permission I would like to address this very pertinent question. Okay? ...

Jesus speaking with a sincere man named Nicodemus said to Nic, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life."John 3:14&15 Then Jesus went on to make it personal: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged."
Note please that Jesus went from 'the world' to the singular pronoun 'he', making it personal to Nicodemus right then and there.

At a well called 'Jacob's Well' over in Samaritan territory where Jews had no dealings with Samaritans, Jesus asked for a drink of water from a Samaritan woman drawing water up from the deep well. The woman was astonished that Jesus would even speak to her, He being a Jew by His clothing and look. As their conversation unfolded, the woman was told that if she knew Who was asking for the water she would ask of Him living water that she would never thirst. She questioned Him, perhaps sarcastically, 'are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well?' (John 4:12) Jesus proved to her that He indeed was greater than Jacob by proving He knew all about her number of men.

In another instance of Him proving He is Whom He claimed to be, He forgave a woman taken in adultery (John 8), when 'righteous' Jews were about to stone her and she fell at His feet. When her accusers slinked away because none was without sin so they could cast the first stone, Jesus forgave her personally of her sins and instructed her to go and sin no more. That's pretty personal by my calculus. How about yours? While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That's personal IF you will admit that you are hopelessly condemned without His work on the Cross for you, personally. If you want to be weighed based upon how good or bad you live, God allows it. But His verdict is already posted for violating any of the Ten Commandments. Damnation is personal, as in yours or mine. It is not a collective verdict, it is for individual violators of His Righteousness.