23 Bible Verses about Animals Having A Soul

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal,
But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.

and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
And the breath of all mankind?

Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the beasts that perish.

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

You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!

“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.