Top 12 Bible Verses About Loving Animals

And they could not reply to these things.

Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

“You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.

“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

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

Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?