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Want to know what the Bible says about Insects? Here are 40 Bible verses about Insects 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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Leviticus 11:20 NIV
“‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you.
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Genesis 1:30 NIV
And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food. ” And it was so.
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Leviticus 11:20-23 NIV
20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you. 21 There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. 23 But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.
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Deuteronomy 7:20 NIV
Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.
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Genesis 1:24-25 NIV
24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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Leviticus 11:21-22 NIV
21 There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
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Leviticus 11:23-24 NIV
23 But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.
24 “‘You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.
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Proverbs 6:6 NIV
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
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Proverbs 30:25 NIV
Ants are creatures of little strength,
    yet they store up their food in the summer;
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Judges 14:8 NIV
Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.
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Psalm 118:12 NIV
They swarmed around me like bees,
    but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;
    in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
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Isaiah 7:18 NIV
In that day the Lord will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
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Leviticus 11:22 NIV
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
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Psalm 78:46 NIV
He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
    their produce to the locust.
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Isaiah 33:4 NIV
Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
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Joel 1:4 NIV
What the locust swarm has left
    the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
    the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left
    other locusts have eaten.
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Nahum 3:15-16 NIV
15 There the fire will consume you;
    the sword will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
    and then fly away.
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Job 25:6 NIV
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being, who is only a worm!”
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Micah 7:17 NIV
They will lick dust like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.
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1 Samuel 24:14 NIV
“Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
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