Bible Verses About Animal Cruelty
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for animal cruelty, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,262 votes, led by Proverbs 12:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Animal Cruelty
Proverbs 12:101,186 votes
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Ecclesiastes 3:19916 votes
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.
Exodus 23:5451 votes
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Proverbs 27:23437 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Deuteronomy 25:4362 votes
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Psalms 145:9324 votes
The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Matthew 6:26287 votes
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?
Luke 12:6271 votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Genesis 1:28270 votes
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.
Genesis 1:30261 votes
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.
Numbers 22:32247 votes
And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
Isaiah 1:11238 votes
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Luke 15:4-7192 votes
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
Isaiah 66:3177 votes
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Proverbs 31:8171 votes
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Deuteronomy 22:6-7164 votes
If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
Genesis 1:26133 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 22:4126 votes
Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
Job 12:7-10124 votes
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Isaiah 11:6123 votes
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.
Exodus 23:11122 votes
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus 20:10116 votes
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Psalms 36:6115 votes
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
1 Corinthians 15:39108 votes
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.
Matthew 10:29106 votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
What does the Bible say about animal cruelty?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 12:10 on the subject of animal cruelty. Across 11,262 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 3:19, Exodus 23:5, Proverbs 27:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.