Taking Care Of The Earth

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. — read the full passage →

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. — read the full passage →

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. — read the full passage →

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? — read the full passage →

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. — read the full passage →

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: — read the full passage →

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. — read the full passage →

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? — read the full passage →

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

“For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — read the full passage →

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. — read the full passage →

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, — read the full passage →

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. — read the full passage →

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. — read the full passage →

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. — read the full passage →

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! — read the full passage →

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. — read the full passage →

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.

You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, — read the full passage →

God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet.

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; — read the full passage →

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. — read the full passage →

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. — read the full passage →