Killing insects

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• Leviticus 11:20–23

  All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. …

• Genesis 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.

• Leviticus 11:20

  All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

• Isaiah 7:18

  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

• Luke 12:33

  Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

• Psalms 118:12

  They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

• Deuteronomy 14:19

  And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

• Isaiah 40:22

  It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

• Ecclesiastes 10:1

  Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

• Matthew 6:19–20

  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

• Mark 1:6

  And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

• Isaiah 50:9

  Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

• Proverbs 6:6

  Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: