46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of The Earth

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.

And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

For "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."

Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame."

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Childrenhave I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;

For in six days the LORD made heaven and 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 shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.

and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground--

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,

The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

"For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.

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

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?

He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.