What does the Bible say about looking after the earth?

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• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

• Genesis 1:26-31

  [26] 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 sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." [27] God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them. [28] God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." [29] God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. [30] To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so. [31] God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

• Psalms 24:1-10

  [1] > The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein. [2] For he has founded it on the seas, And established it on the floods. [3] Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place? [4] He who has clean hands and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully. [5] He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation. [6] This is the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek your face--even Jacob. Selah. [7] Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in. [8] Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle. [9] Lift up your heads, you gates; Yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in. [10] Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.

• John 3:14-15

  [14] As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, [15] that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

• Revelation 1:1

  This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

• Genesis 1:26

  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 sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

• John 3:16-17

  [16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [17] For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

• Psalms 24:1

  > The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein.

• Genesis 1:1

  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

• Genesis 1:28

  God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

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