39 Bible Verses about breathing

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives me life.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

By the LORD's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of Shaddai gives them understanding.

Thus says God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

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

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.'"

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast could both speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.'"

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

But of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them.

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.

"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

For how can this servant of my lord talk with my lord? As for me, no strength remains, and I am breathless."

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.