45 Bible Verses about breath

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

“From the breath of God ice is made,
And the expanse of the waters is frozen.

“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils,

In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
And the breath of all mankind?

“The Spirit of God has made me,
And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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

But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.

Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.

I will praise the Lord while I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

“But it is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk in it,

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.

“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

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; and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the innermost parts of his being.

For how can such a servant of my lord talk with such as my lord? As for me, there remains just now no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me.”

So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.

Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’”

Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord!

Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

“By the breath of God they perish,
And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

“Woe to him who says to a piece of wood, ‘Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have made.

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,
I will take hold of its fruit stalks.’
Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
And the fragrance of your breath like apples,