39 Bible Verses about breathing

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)

As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

The Spirit of God has made me. The Breath of the Almighty gives me life.

In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Its breath kindles coals, and a flame comes out of its mouth.

The heavens were made by the word of Jehovah, and by the breath of his mouth their entire host.

I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish.

Ice is made from the breath of God. It freezes the expanse of the waters.

Then the evil (lawless) one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will put him to death with the breath of his mouth, and destroy him by the manifestation (brightness) (advent) (revelation) of his coming. (Greek: parousia: presence, return, being near)

You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.

But truly it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty that makes for understanding.

God created the heavens and stretched them out. He fashioned the earth and all that lives there. He gave life and breath to all its people. And now Jehovah God says to his servant:

His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).

After he said this he breathed on them and said: Receive Holy Spirit.

Do not surrender me to the will of my opponents. False witnesses have risen against me. They breathe out violence.

I will praise Jehovah while I live. I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive. You will know that I am Jehovah.'

He had power to give breath to the image of the beast and to make that image of the beast speak. He caused many to be killed, those who would not worship the image of the beast.

God destroys them with his breath and kills them with a blast of his anger.

Then Jehovah said to me: Prophesy to the wind (ruach: air, breath, spirit, life)! Prophesy, son of man. Tell the wind, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe on these people who were killed so that they will live.'

He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.

Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah!

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail and they will not escape. Their hope will become a dying gasp.

What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity.

The Lord Jehovah says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

My voice came to you, Do not shut your ear to my relief, to my cry!

My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me.

For how can the servant of my lord talk? I had no strength in me. I was also without breath.

I will call on him as long as I live because he turns his ear toward me (listens to me).

O Jehovah our God, source of all life, appoint, I pray, a man who can lead the people

Jehovah knows the thoughts of man. He knows that they a mere vanity.

I looked, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them. But there was no breath in them.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

The ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at your stern warning, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath from your nostrils.