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Want to know what the Bible says about Animal Cruelty? Here are 85 Bible verses about Animal Cruelty from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 12:10 NIV
The righteous care for the needs of their animals,
    but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19 NIV
Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath ; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.
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Exodus 23:5 NIV
If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
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Proverbs 27:23 NIV
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,
    give careful attention to your herds;
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Deuteronomy 25:4 NIV
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
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Psalm 145:9 NIV
The Lord is good to all;
    he has compassion on all he has made.
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Genesis 1:28 NIV
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
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Luke 12:6 NIV
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
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Matthew 6:26 NIV
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
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Isaiah 1:11 NIV
“The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;
I have no pleasure
    in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
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