taking care of the earth

Genesis Chapter 1:26

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.

Genesis Chapter 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis Chapter 1:28

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.

Genesis Chapter 1:29

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Genesis Chapter 1:30

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Genesis Chapter 2:15

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Leviticus Chapter 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Leviticus Chapter 25:24

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Numbers Chapter 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Numbers Chapter 35:34

Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.

Job Chapter 12:7

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Job Chapter 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Job Chapter 12:9

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

Job Chapter 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Psalm Chapter 24:1

The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Proverbs Chapter 12:10

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

Isaiah Chapter 24:4

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Isaiah Chapter 24:5

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah Chapter 24:6

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Jeremiah Chapter 2:7

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Colossians Chapter 1:16

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

Colossians Chapter 1:17

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Revelation Chapter 11:18

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.