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What does the Bible say about pets?
What does the Bible say about pets and creatures that move?
Everything starts in Genesis 1:26-28 KJV:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
God gave humanity the reign over all the creatures of the earth, the fish in the sea, or the birds in the sky. He gave us the advantage over the beasts.
The most famous story of animals in the Bible was Noah's Ark. God said to Noah:
"I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."
God was going to send a flood to destroy the life of every living humans and creature. Noah built an ark and brought two animals according to their kinds. By caring for animals, Noah saved them from inevitable disaster.
Read more: 120 Fascinating Bible Verses About Animals
In today's Bible study, we will examine encouraging Bible verses about pets and animals:
Bible Verses For Pets and Animals
1. Psalms 136:25 KJV
Who giveth food to all creatures: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2. James 3:7 KJV
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
3. Psalms 145:21 KJV
My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
4. Job 12:10 KJV
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
5. Matthew 6:18 KJV
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
6. Matthew 7:6 KJV
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
7. Genesis 2:7 KJV
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8. Jeremiah 8:7 KJV
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
9. Luke 12:6 KJV
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
10. Luke 12:24 KJV
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
11. Luke 1:37 KJV
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
12. Genesis 1:26 KJV
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
13. Deuteronomy 25:4 KJV
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
14. Luke 14:5 KJV
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
15. Proverbs 12:10 KJV
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
16. Psalms 104:14 KJV
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
17. Genesis 1:30 KJV
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
18. Genesis 1:21 KJV
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
19. 2 Kings 2:11 KJV
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
20. Revelation 5:13 KJV
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
21. Matthew 6:26 KJV
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
22. Matthew 10:29 KJV
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
23. Luke 3:6 KJV
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
24. Job 12:7-10 KJV
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
25. Job 30:1 KJV
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
26. 1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
27. Exodus 23:12 KJV
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
28. Revelation 1:1 KJV
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
29. Psalms 145:9 KJV
The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
30. Revelation 19:11 KJV
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
31. Genesis 2:15 KJV
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
32. Psalms 104:21 KJV
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
33. Proverbs 27:23 KJV
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
34. Genesis 7:16 KJV
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
35. Revelation 19:14 KJV
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
36. Isaiah 11:11 KJV
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
37. Job 35:11 KJV
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
38. Mark 7:28 KJV
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
39. Psalms 24:1 KJV
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
40. Psalms 36:6 KJV
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
41. Isaiah 11:6 KJV
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
42. 1 Corinthians 15:39 KJV
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
43. Genesis 1:28 KJV
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
44. Genesis 9:2 KJV
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
45. Proverbs 26:17 KJV
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
46. 2 Samuel 12:3 KJV
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
47. Isaiah 65:25 KJV
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
48. Ecclesiastes 12:7 KJV
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
49. Genesis 1:24 KJV
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
50. Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
51. Ecclesiastes 3:21 KJV
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
52. Psalms 150:6 KJV
Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
53. Proverbs 6:6-8 KJV
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.