17 Bible Verses about Living Things

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.

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.

Then God said, “Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

“Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

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

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

He is not God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to Him.”

The living, only the living can thank You,
as I do today;
a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.

If what was stolen—whether ox, donkey, or sheep—is actually found alive in his possession, he must repay double.

But there is hope for whoever is joined with all the living, since a live dog is better than a dead lion.

The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean.

When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—
they will fall, never to rise again.