Bible Verses About Taking Care of Animals
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of animals, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,590 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 Taking Care of Animals
Proverbs 12:10376 votes
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs 27:23238 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Genesis 1:26166 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.
Matthew 6:26163 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?
Jonah 4:11139 votes
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Deuteronomy 25:4137 votes
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Luke 12:6128 votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Psalms 50:10-11116 votes
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Genesis 2:15111 votes
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Exodus 20:1082 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:
Matthew 10:2975 votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Exodus 23:4-573 votes
If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Job 12:7-1067 votes
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Genesis 1:2853 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.
Deuteronomy 22:6-753 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 23:1151 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.
James 3:750 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:
Genesis 9:1-343 votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Psalms 147:943 votes
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Genesis 9:2-340 votes
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.
Psalms 104:27-2839 votes
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Luke 14:537 votes
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?
Genesis 1:20-2133 votes
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Exodus 23:529 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.
Leviticus 22:2825 votes
And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
What does the Bible say about taking care of animals?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 12:10 on the subject of taking care of animals. Across 2,590 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 27:23, Genesis 1:26, Matthew 6:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.