Bible Verses About Animals

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.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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?

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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.

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.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

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?

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.

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind .

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.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

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.

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.