"Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over ... every living thing that moveth upon the earth." 1:28
This verse is used to justify Christian opposition to birth control, concern for the environment, and animal rights. The earth was made for humans, and they can do as they damn well please with it.
"To dress and keep it" 2:15
Some Christians say this verse requires them to be environmentalists.
"Am I my brother's keeper?" 4:9
President Obama often used this verse in a way that implied that the answer is, "Yes, we are our brother's / sister's keeper," although Cain probably meant something more like, "I don't know, it's not my day to watch him."
"While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." 8:22
Some Christians claim that this verse proves that human influenced climate change is impossible and that environmentalism is not consistent with Biblical beliefs.
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." 9:6
(Because man was made in the image of God.)
"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." 12:3
This verse is used by many American Christians to justify US support of Israel.
God gave Abraham and his descendants all of the land of Canaan "forever". 13:14-15, 15:18, 17:8, 22:17-18, 26:4
This promise is used to justify the unending battles over the land in the Middle East.
"Bessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all." 14:20
Melchizedek praises God for delivering Abraham's enemies into his hand, for which he is paid a tenth of all the spoils.
This is the first occurrence of the word "tithe" in the Bible and it is used to justify the idea that believers should give 10% of their money to their church.
"The LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates." 15:18
God repeats his promise to give Abraham all the land in the region -- this time describing it as all the land between the Nile and Euphrates Rivers. (See Genesis 13:14-15)
