26 Bible Verses about Respect, For Environment
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To David chanting. To Jehovah the earth and its fulness, the habitable globe and they dwelling in it. For he founded it upon the seas, and upon the rivers he will prepare it
And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth. And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.
And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And because who am I? and who my people, that we shall retain power to show ourselves willing according to this? for from thee all things, and from thy hand they gave to thee.
I will not take a bullock from thy house, from thy fold, he goats. For to me all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains. I knew all the birds of the mountains and the moving things of the field with me.read more.
If I shall hunger I shall not say to thee; for to me the habitable globe, and its fulness.
To thee the heavens, also to thee the earth; the habitable globe and its fulness thou didst found them.
And God will say, We will make man in our image according to our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and every. creeping thing creeping upon the earth. And God will form man in his image, in the image of God he formed him; male and female he formed them. And God will praise them, and God will say to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing creeping upon the earth.
And God will praise Noah and his sons, and will say to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given. Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things.
And thou wilt give him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou didst put all under his feet: Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the cattle of the field; And the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, passing through the paths of the seas.
All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.
For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:
Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size? And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin:read more.
And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith!
Consider the ravens: for they sow not neither do they reap; to them there is not store-house nor store; and God nourishes them: how much more have ye preeminence of the fowls? And which of you having anxiety can add to his size one cubit? If then ye cannot do the least, why have ye anxiety for the rest?read more.
Consider the white lilies, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin; and I say to you, neither was Solomon in all his glory clothed as one of these. And if the grass, to day being in the field and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes; how much rather you, ye of little faith?
For the land where thou goest in there to possess it, it is not as the land of Egypt, where ye came from there, when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of green things: And the land where ye are passing over there to possess it, a land of mountains and valleys; according to the rain of the heavens it will drink water. A land which Jehovah thy God sought for it: continually are the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it from the beginning of the year, and even to the last of the year.read more.
And it was if hearing, ye shall hear to the commands which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, And I gave the rain of your land in its time, the early and the latter rain; and gather thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil. And I gave the green herb in thy field for thy cattle, and eat thou and be satisfied.
Thou reviewedst the earth, and thou wilt water it: thou wilt greatly enrich it; the stream of God being full of waters: thou wilt prepare their grain, for so thou wilt prepare it. Thou givest its furrows to drink to the full: thou wilt cause its incisions to flow down in showers: thou wilt bless its springing up. Thou crownest the year of thy goodness, and thy tracks shall drop fatness.read more.
The pastures of the desert shall drop, and the hills shall be girded with joy. The lambs of the sheep were clothed, and the valleys shall be covered with corn; they shall shout for joy, they shall also sing.
So that ye might be sons of your Father, which in the heavens: for he makes his sun rise upon evil and good, and rains on the just and unjust.
When thou. shalt besiege against a city many days to war against it, to capture it, thou shalt not destroy its wood to thrust an axe upon it; for from it thou shalt eat: and thou shalt not cut it down; for the man the tree of the field, to go from before thee into the fortress.
If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him. If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen in the way, and hide from them: lifting up, thou shalt lift up with him.
The just one shall know the soul of his cattle: and the compassion of the unjust are cruel.
Six years shalt thou sow thy land, and gather its produce: And the seventh thou shalt remit, and let it be; and the poor of thy people shall eat; and the remains, the beast of the field shall eat. So shalt thou do to thy vineyard and to thy olive tree.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, in mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When ye shall come into the land which I gave to you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to Jehovah. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather its produce;read more.
And in the seventh year, a Sabbath of rest shall be to the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah: thy field thou shalt not sow, and thy vineyard thou. shalt not prune. The overflowing of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy separation thou shalt not gather: a year of the Sabbaths shall be to the land. And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food; to thee and to thy servant, and to thy maid, and to thy hireling, and to thine inhabitant sojourning with thee. And to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land shall all its produce be for food.
And the people of the land bringing wares and all grain in the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take from them in the Sabbath and in the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the debt of every hand.
