In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed. Psalm 95:4–5 (NRSV)
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. (Genesis 2:15, NRSV)
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy. (Psalm 96:11–12, NRSV)
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.” (Job 12:7–10, NRSV)
Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse. (Romans 1:20, NRSV)
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. (Psalm 104:24–25, NRSV)
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it—you have founded them. (Psalm 89:11, NRSV)
“I made the earth, and created humankind upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.” (Isaiah 45:12, NRSV)
“The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands,” (Acts 17:24, NRSV)
“The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it;” (Psalm 24:1, NRSV)
The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name. (Amos 5:8, NRSV)
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. (Luke 12:6, NRSV)
…for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. (Colossians 1:16–17, NRSV)
All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being (John 1:3, NRSV)
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now… (Romans 8:19–22, NRSV)
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26–28, NRSV)