39 Bible Verses about breathing
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Then the channels of water appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
And I looked, and behold, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
Because He has inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.
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.”
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,
So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life.
Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
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.
“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”
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.
of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
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.”’”
“By the breath of God they perish,
And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.
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.
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.
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.’”
I will praise the Lord while I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.
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,
“But it is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the ground.
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;
“From the breath of God ice is made,
And the expanse of the waters is frozen.
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.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
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.
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