Bible Verses About Compassion for Creation

And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.