Animal Cruelty
10 passages
- Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
Read it in context - Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
Read it in context - Proverbs 27:23
Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Read it in context - Psalm 145:9
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Read it in context - Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Read it in context - Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
Read it in context - Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Read it in context - Isaiah 1:11
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
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