13 Bible Verses about Care of Animals (KJV)

Here are 13 Bible verses about care of animals, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Deuteronomy 22:4 KJV

⁴Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

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Proverbs 12:10 KJV

¹⁰A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Genesis 1:28 KJV

²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

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Proverbs 27:23 KJV

²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

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Deuteronomy 25:4 KJV

⁴Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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Acts 20:35 KJV

³⁵I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Matthew 10:29 KJV

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

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Psalm 145:9 KJV

⁹The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

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Genesis 1:26 KJV

²⁶And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Colossians 2:8 KJV

⁸Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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Exodus 23:5 KJV

⁵If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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Exodus 20:10 KJV

¹⁰But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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Isaiah 53:7 KJV

⁷He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

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