SOME SCRIPTURE ABOUT ANIMALS AND
COMPASSION
Psalm 145:9 - The Lord is good to all,
Compassionate to every creature.
Matthew 5:7 - Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Psalm 150:6 - Let EVERYTHING that has
breath praise the Lord! Alleluia.
Matthew 6:10 - Your kingdom come, Your
will be done, On earth as in Heaven.
2 Peter 2:16 - But he (Balaam) received a
rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and
restrained the prophet's madness.
Habakkuk 2:17 JB - For the violence done
to Lebanon is going to overwhelm you, so will the slaughter of its
terrified beasts.
Isaiah 43:20 NAB - Wild beasts honor me,
jackals and ostriches, for I put water in the desert and rivers in the
wasteland for my chosen people to drink.
Mark 16:15 - He said to them, "Go in to
the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature."
1 Cor 10:31 - So whether you eat or
drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Luke 4:18b-19- Jesus said, "He has sent
me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to
let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Luke 16:20-21 - And lying at his door was
a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten
his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to
come and lick his sores.
Prov. 6:6 - Go to the ant, O sluggard,
study her ways and learn wisdom; for though she has no chief, no commander or
ruler, she procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the
harvest. How long, O sluggard, will you rest? When will you rise from your sleep?
Prov. 12:10 - A righteous man cares for
the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Job 12:7-10 - But now ask the beasts
(cattle) to teach you, and the birds of the air to tell you; or the reptiles on
the earth to instruct you, and the fish of the sea to inform you. Which of
all these does not know that the hand of God has done this? In his hand is the
soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mankind.
Daniel Chap. 1 - Daniel and his
companions (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) didn't want to defile himself with the
King's food or wine, he wanted water and vegetables for 10 days. The result was
more knowledge.
Romans 8:21 - We look
forward to that day when 'the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children
of God.'
Romans 14:20-21 - Gives the principle of
avoiding becoming a stumbling block by eating meat sacrificed to idols.
Col. 1:16 - All things were created by
Him and for Him and in Him all things hold together.
Hebrews 4:13 -
No created thing is hidden from Him; everything is uncovered and
stretched fully open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account
of ourselves.
Hosea 2:18 - I will make a covenant for
them on that day, with the beasts of the field, with the birds of the air, and
with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and war I will
destroy from the land, and I will let them take their rest in security.
Rev. 5:13-14 - Then I heard every
creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and
all that is in them, singing: "To him who sits on the throne and to the
Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!" The
four living creatures said, "Amen," and the elders fell down and
worshiped.
