James 3:7

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For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.

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  • Jas 3:8-10
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    8But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

    9With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God’s image.

    10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

  • Jas 3:2-6
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    2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.

    3And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies.

    4Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.

    5So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

    6And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell.

  • Ps 8:7-8
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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

    8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

  • 10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Job 12:7-8
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    7Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

    8Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

  • 12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

  • 12In it were all kinds of four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and wild birds.

  • 25Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

  • 46This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

  • Gen 1:24-26
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    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

    25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

  • Eccl 3:18-19
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    18I also thought to myself,“It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

  • Gen 9:2-3
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    2Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you. Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.

    3You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

  • 14They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings.

  • 8Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,

  • 39All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

  • 10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

  • 3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

  • 14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

  • Deut 4:17-18
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    17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

    18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.

  • 21God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

  • 23For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

  • 33He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.

  • Titus 3:2-3
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    2They must not slander anyone, but be peaceable, gentle, showing complete courtesy to all people.

    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • 19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

  • 4For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

  • 9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • 19For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.

  • 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

  • 19Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

  • 4Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”

    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • 10and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you– every living creature of the earth.

  • 8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

  • 30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.