13 Bible Verses about Caring For Animals

The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked are cruel.

And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

'Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

For Mine is every beast of the forest, The cattle on the hills of oxen. I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me.

and answering them he said, 'Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the sabbath-day?'

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they? 'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit? and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;read more.
and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.

'Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.

For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out.