Bible Verses About Stewardship of Creation

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

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.

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.

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

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

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

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

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.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

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

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

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

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

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.

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

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:

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

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.

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

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

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

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

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

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.

O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.