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Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 546 helpful votes
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Matthew 6:26 ESV / 403 helpful votes
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Genesis 9:2-3 ESV / 340 helpful votes
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
Genesis 1:26-28 ESV / 330 helpful votes
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Ecclesiastes 3:18-21 ESV / 283 helpful votes
I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
Job 35:11 ESV / 253 helpful votes
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
Job 12:7-10 ESV / 253 helpful votes
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Isaiah 65:25 ESV / 229 helpful votes
The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Genesis 1:30 ESV / 223 helpful votes
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:21 ESV / 216 helpful votes
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Psalm 145:9 ESV / 209 helpful votes
The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
Isaiah 11:6 ESV / 159 helpful votes
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
Luke 12:6 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
Isaiah 11:6-9 ESV / 146 helpful votes
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Luke 3:6 ESV / 143 helpful votes
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
Proverbs 27:23 ESV / 143 helpful votes
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,
Luke 12:24 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 130 helpful votes
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Psalm 36:6 ESV / 125 helpful votes
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O Lord.
James 3:7 ESV / 121 helpful votes
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,
Matthew 10:29 ESV / 112 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Psalm 8:6-9 ESV / 112 helpful votes
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Genesis 1:24 ESV / 102 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Revelation 5:13 ESV / 99 helpful votes
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
Job 12:7 ESV / 99 helpful votes
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 97 helpful votes
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Ecclesiastes 3:21 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?
Psalm 150:6 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Psalm 147:9 ESV / 84 helpful votes
He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
Jeremiah 8:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
Genesis 6:19 ESV / 79 helpful votes
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Exodus 23:5 ESV / 78 helpful votes
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
Job 38:41 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?
Exodus 23:12 ESV / 75 helpful votes
“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
Genesis 9:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
Isaiah 66:3 ESV / 71 helpful votes
“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
Psalm 104:21 ESV / 71 helpful votes
The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 71 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 67 helpful votes
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Genesis 2:19 ESV / 67 helpful votes
Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
Luke 14:5 ESV / 64 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
Deuteronomy 22:6-7 ESV / 60 helpful votes
“If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.
Psalm 148:7-12 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word! Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars! Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds! Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth! …
Revelation 19:11-14 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.
Hosea 2:18 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
Romans 8:21-22 ESV / 55 helpful votes
That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Psalm 50:10-12 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
1 Corinthians 9:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes
For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
Deuteronomy 22:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Genesis 8:20 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Psalm 50:10-11 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
Genesis 1:20 ESV / 50 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
Isaiah 30:6 ESV / 49 helpful votes
An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Numbers 22:28-30 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.” And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”
Job 12:9-10 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Romans 8:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Isaiah 11:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 42 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Psalm 145:15-16 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Psalm 145:9-10 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and all your saints shall bless you!
Genesis 1:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Romans 8:19-21 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Revelation 7:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Mark 1:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.
Psalm 59:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
Numbers 22:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
Revelation 19:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.
Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. …
1 Samuel 17:34 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,
Genesis 2:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …
Isaiah 13:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.
Genesis 6:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Revelation 19:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Revelation 20:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Psalm 104:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Exodus 20:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
Genesis 9:9-10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
“Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.
Revelation 11:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
Revelation 5:6-14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” …
Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Proverbs 30:25-28 ESV / 28 helpful votes
The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs; the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
Job 24:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
Judges 7:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”
Revelation 16:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
Revelation 14:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 27 helpful votes
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Jonah 4:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Isaiah 66:22-23 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain. From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Psalm 49:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.
Job 37:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
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