Treatment of Animals – Astonishing Passages for Choosing Vegetarianism

  • Proverbs 12:10  –   Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast. . .
  • Ecclesiastes 3:19  –  For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same;  as one dies, so dies the other.
  • Proverbs 27:23  –  Know well the condition of your flocks. . .
  • Psalm 145:9  –  The Lord is good to all, and His mercy is over all that He has made.
  • Luke 12:6  –  Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?  And not one of them is forgotten before God.
  • Isaiah 1:11  –  . . .I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
  • Numbers 22:32  –  And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times?  Behold, I have come to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.”
  • Proverbs 31:8  –  Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.
  • Isaiah 66:3  –  He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man. . .
  • Isaiah 11:9  –  They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord. .
  • Isaiah 32:20  –  Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.
  • Psalm 150:6  –  Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
  • Isaiah 65:25  –  . . .but the serpent  –  its food shall be dust!  They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
  • Proverbs 11:17  –  Those who are kind reward themselves, but the cruel do themselves harm.
  • Psalm 104:14 – You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use to bring forth food from the earth.
  • Psalm 50:10-11 –  For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.  I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.