- 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.