- Genesis 1:25:
“God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”
- Proverbs 12:10:
“The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.”
- Psalm 104:31:
“May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works.”
- Luke 12:6:
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.”
- Matthew 10:29:
“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.”
- Proverbs 27:23:
“Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;”
- Exodus 23:12:
“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.”
- Job 12:7-10:
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
- Matthew 6:26:
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
- Psalm 145:9:
“The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.”
- Proverbs 30:25:
“Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;”
- Genesis 2:19-20:
“Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.”
- Psalm 8:6-8:
“You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.”
- Jonah 4:11:
“And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
- Leviticus 25:7:
“Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will all belong to you.”
- Job 39:13-17:
“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork. She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand, unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain, for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.”
- Isaiah 11:6-9:
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
- Deuteronomy 25:4:
“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”
- Matthew 18:12:
“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?”
- Genesis 9:2:
“The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:19:
“Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.”
- Isaiah 65:25:
“The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.”
- Genesis 6:19-20:
“You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.”
- Psalm 36:6:
“Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.”
- Psalm 50:10-11:
“For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.”
- Matthew 6:26:
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
- Genesis 7:2-3:
“Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.”
- Psalm 145:9:
“The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.”
- Psalm 36:6:
“Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.”
- Luke 14:5:
“Then he asked them, ‘If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?’”