Top 12 Bible Verse Quotes About Taking Care of The Earth

Update on by Pastor Jack Wellman

Today, the earth is in worse shape than ever before but the Bible teaches that we are to be good stewards and I believe this includes being good stewards of the earth, so here are 12 Bible quotes about taking care of the earth.

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And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:8
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You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
- Psalm 8:6-8
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The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
- Revelation 11:18
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The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
- Genesis 2:15
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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
- Leviticus 25:23-24
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The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
- Psalm 24:1
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Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
- 1 Corinthians 4:2
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They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
- Revelation 9:4
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Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
- Proverbs 12:10
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And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
- Genesis 1:28
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Then 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 heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Genesis 1:26
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As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
- 1 Peter 4:10
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Total Quotes Found: 12

As we have read, we are to take care of the earth and be good stewards of what God has entrusted to us. God gave mankind dominion over the earth but that doesn’t mean we should use and abuse the earth because God will hold us accountable. Feel free to share these with someone else to show them that God expects us to be good stewards of the earth, even if others in the world are not.