Killing Insects

6 passages

1. Genesis 1:26

   Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

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2. Leviticus 11:20

   All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.

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3. Deuteronomy 14:19

   All flying insects are unclean for you; they may not be eaten.

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4. Luke 12:33

   Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

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5. Psalm 118:12

   They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

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6. Isaiah 40:22

   He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

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