What Does the Bible Say About Taking Care Of The Environment?

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Numbers 35:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Deuteronomy 11:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Revelation 11:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

1 John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

11 Bible Verses about Taking Care Of The Environment

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Numbers 35:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 11:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 11:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Genesis 2:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Numbers 35:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 11:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 11:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote