19 Bible Verses about Those Flying

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

“And He rode on a cherub and flew;
And He appeared on the wings of the wind.

He rode upon a cherub and flew;
And He sped upon the wings of the wind.

Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

“Who are these who fly like a cloud
And like the doves to their lattices?

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.”

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a flying serpent.

Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll. And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

“Their horses are swifter than leopards
And keener than wolves in the evening.
Their horsemen come galloping,
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

“Though you build high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and flies away.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she *was nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.