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What does the Bible say about animals and pets?
Scripture says the righteous care for their animals, and pictures God feeding and noticing even sparrows.
What Scripture says
Proverbs 12:10
“A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
Genesis 1:24-25
“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. 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.”
Matthew 10:29
““Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.”
Psalm 104:14
“He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:”
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