23 Bible Verses about Animals Having A Soul

Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

So it is with the resurrection of the dead:

Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;
sown in dishonor, raised in glory;
sown in weakness, raised in power;
sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

A righteous man cares about his animal’s health,
but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.

Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.

Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

The life of every living thing is in His hand,
as well as the breath of all mankind.

I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have appointed it to you to make atonement on the altar for your lives, since it is the lifeblood that makes atonement.

A man with valuable possessions
but without understanding
is like the animals that perish.

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!

“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found as his complement.

Therefore you must distinguish the clean animal from the unclean one, and the unclean bird from the clean one. Do not become contaminated by any land animal, bird, or whatever crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.