Bible Verses about “cruelty to animals”
The Bible contains 9 verses about cruelty to animals across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“See 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?”
“To 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.”
“A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
“God 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.”
“You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].”
“He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.”
“The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:”
“I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.”
“For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.”