Sentences with phrase «fowl of the air»

GEN 1:26 And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them.

Christianity has been subject to much recent criticism for its acquiescence — even encouragement — of the exploitation of nature, said to be based on the verse in Genesis where God gave man «dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth» (Genesis 1, 26 AV.).

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

God has given man dominion «over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth» — and we may add, over steam, electricity, ether waves, the stratosphere, plutonium, uranium, and every invisible physical power.

The description of the fowls of the air, the lilies of the field, the grass which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, and Solomon in all his glory, has etched itself forever on the memory of humanity in most of the languages of the world.

«And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.»

NewYorkGal12, Also... «And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.»

The stage of Early Man, though, is stuffed with men and women — on the Neanderthal spectrum, it's true, but propelled by needs and greeds much like our own — whereas the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air are reduced to the role of extras.

Dominion Over Earth Not An Excuse For Tyranny That special responsibility is rooted in the belief that everything in the universe is the work of God and that, as it says in the book of Genesis, Earth has been given to humans to «use and protect» and that humans have «dominion» over «the fish in the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creeps upon the earth.