Bible Verses about โanimals not having soulsโ
The Bible contains 24 verses about animals not having souls across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โFor God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.โ
โGod blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."โ
โThis is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,โ
โSee the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?โ
โTo every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.โ
โGod said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.โ
โLet everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!โ
โA righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.โ
โGod created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.โ
โGod said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."โ
โYahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.โ
โWho knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"โ
โThe wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.โ
โI said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.โ
โThe nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.โ
โThe cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.โ
โThey will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.โ
โYour righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.โ
โIt is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.โ
โSo also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.โ
โIt is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.โ
โ"As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,โ
โand with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.โ
