Bible Verses About Conservation Efforts

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

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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 it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

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

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

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.

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

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.

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

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

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.