46 Bible Verses about Pets
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Whoever speaks must speak God's words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus, the Messiah. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.
These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,
For in this way you will be generously granted entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah.
The righteous person looks out for the welfare of his livestock, but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
For all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures can be or have been tamed by humans,
"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.
But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."
He described trees everything from cedars that grow in Lebanon to hyssop that grows on a garden wall. He described animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
"I'll appoint four kinds of judgment for them," declares the LORD: "the sword to kill, the dogs to drag off, the birds of the sky to devour, and the animals of the land to destroy.
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep!
You greatly rejoice in this, even though you have to suffer various kinds of trials for a little while,
For all the others look after their own interests, not after those of Jesus the Messiah.
but the poor man had nothing except for one little ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It used to share his food and drink from his own cup. It even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
"You are to be people set apart for me. You are not to eat flesh torn apart in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs."
Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?
For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.
He replied, "It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."
Not all flesh is the same. Humans have one kind of flesh, animals in general have another, birds have another, and fish have still another.
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds that fly, and to each of earth's animals, but there was not found a strength corresponding to him,
"Ask the wild animals, and they'll teach you; the birds of the sky will tell you.
Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.
He was always trying to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs used to come and lick his sores.
that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."
Picking up a dog by the ears that's what someone is like who meddles in another's fight.
"Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you."
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If one blind person leads another blind person, both will fall into a ditch."
Outside are dogs, sorcerers, immoral people, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
I heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and on the sea, and everything that is in them, saying, "To the one who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise, honor, glory, and power forever and ever!"
The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.'
She must be well known for her good actions as a woman who has raised children, welcomed strangers, washed the saints' feet, helped the suffering, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.
because the king had ships that sailed to Tarshish accompanied by Hiram's ships. Once every three years ships from Tarshish returned, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
Don't bring the earnings of a female prostitute nor the income of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God as payment for any vow. Both of these are detestable to the LORD your God."
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that destroy the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom."
God made each kind of the earth's animals, along with every kind of livestock and crawling thing. And God saw how good it was.
She said, "Yes, Lord. But even the puppies eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' tables."
Therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, "Moab will surely become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a place overrun by weeds and salty marshes, unpopulated forever. The survivors of my people will confiscate their property, and those who remain of my nation will inherit what was theirs.
"Blessed will your children be, as well as the produce of your land, the offspring of your beasts and cattle, and the offspring of your flock.
"The wolf will live with the lamb; the leopard will lie down with the young goat. The calf and the lion will graze together, and a little child will lead them.
But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the puppies under the table eat some of the children's crumbs."