Bible Verses about “killing insects”
The Bible contains 10 verses about killing insects across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."”
“"'All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.”
“Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.”
“Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.”
“But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.”
“Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.”
“It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;”
“All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.”
“They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.”
“It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.”