12 Bible Verses about Caring For Animals

An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

And he said to them, Which of you, whose ox or ass has got into a water-hole, will not straight away get him out on the Sabbath?

See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller? And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:read more.
But I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.