Bible Verses About Animal Rights
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for animal rights, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,573 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 Rights
Proverbs 12:10319 votes
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Matthew 6:26219 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?
Genesis 1:26-28189 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.
Genesis 1:29-30166 votes
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Luke 12:48146 votes
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Isaiah 32:20140 votes
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Deuteronomy 25:4131 votes
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Deuteronomy 22:6-7102 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:
Exodus 23:5100 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.
Isaiah 11:6-999 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.
Genesis 1:2697 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.
Proverbs 27:2388 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Genesis 1:3084 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.
Isaiah 11:684 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.
Revelation 1:184 votes
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:
James 3:780 votes
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:
Psalms 147:975 votes
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Exodus 20:1074 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:
Luke 1:3774 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Matthew 10:29-3173 votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Psalms 36:672 votes
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
Isaiah 66:369 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.
Genesis 9:367 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis 6:1963 votes
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-2263 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.
What does the Bible say about animal rights?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 12:10 on the subject of animal rights. Across 6,573 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 6:26, Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 1:29-30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.