46 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of The Earth

You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile with overflowing streams full of water. You provide grain for them, for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to what the Lord has to say!

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.

Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking: "Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

Kings will be your children's guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."

Be careful not to overlook the Levites as long as you live in the land.

Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also is an enigma."

"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

I, the Lord, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it.

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

He will assume his post and shepherd the people by the Lord's strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord his God. They will live securely, for at that time he will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.

The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

The Lord is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.

Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

My help comes from the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth!

"'For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.

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

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

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

He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.

Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me."

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of -- away from the presence of the serpent -- for a time, times, and half a time.

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning 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 on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

"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 bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them -- with judgment!