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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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Exodus 8:22 NIV
“‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the Lord, am in this land.
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Ecclesiastes 10:1 NIV
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
    so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
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Matthew 23:24 NIV
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
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Judges 6:5 NIV
They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.
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Job 39:20 NIV
Do you make it leap like a locust,
    striking terror with its proud snorting?
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Exodus 10:12-13 NIV
12 And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;
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Exodus 8:16 NIV
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”
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Psalm 105:31 NIV
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
    and gnats throughout their country.
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Exodus 16:20 NIV
However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
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Job 4:19 NIV
how much more those who live in houses of clay,
    whose foundations are in the dust,
    who are crushed more readily than a moth!
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Job 27:18 NIV
The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon,
    like a hut made by a watchman.
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Isaiah 50:9 NIV
It is the Sovereign Lord who helps me.
    Who will condemn me?
They will all wear out like a garment;
    the moths will eat them up.
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Amos 4:9 NIV
“Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.
Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.
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Job 8:14 NIV
What they trust in is fragile ;
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.
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Proverbs 30:28 NIV
a lizard can be caught with the hand,
    yet it is found in kings’ palaces.
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Psalm 104:25 NIV
There is the sea, vast and spacious,
    teeming with creatures beyond number—
    living things both large and small.
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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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Psalm 145:15 NIV
The eyes of all look to you,
    and you give them their food at the proper time.
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Leviticus 11:21-25 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. 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. 25 Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.
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Deuteronomy 14:19 NIV
All flying insects are unclean to you; do not eat them.
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