Bible Verses about “taking care of the earth”

“God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.”

“God 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."”

“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."”

“God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.”

“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.”

“Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

“in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?”

“"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.”

“"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.”

“The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."”

“In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.”

“"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.”

“Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.”

“Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,”

“The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.”

“I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.”

“You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"”

“The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.”

“Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.”

“The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.”