46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of The Earth

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth.

God blessed them; and God said 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 sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

“O land, land, land,
Hear the word of the Lord!

for the earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains.

“Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will ponder over you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,

What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

“Kings will be your guardians,
And their princesses your nurses.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth
And lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am the Lord;
Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the Lord speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.

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.”

Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

There is futility which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked. On the other hand, there are evil men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this too is futility.

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

“I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

And He will arise and shepherd His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God.
And they will remain,
Because at that time He will be great
To the ends of the earth.

The heavens are the heavens of the Lord,
But the earth He has given to the sons of men.

But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

“Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth?

To bring rain on a land without people,
On a desert without a man in it,

The Lord is good to all,
And His mercies are over all His works.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

They will lick the dust like a serpent,
Like reptiles of the earth.
They will come trembling out of their fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in dread
And they will be afraid before You.

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;

“For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
And His ears attend to their prayer,
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in heaven and in the earth?

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,
In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in His bosom;
He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

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.

“Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”

Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them; how much more valuable you are than the birds!

And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she *was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.