39 Bible Verses about breathing

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Job 41:21


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

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.

Isaiah 42:5

This is what God the Lord says,

He who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to the people on it
And spirit to those who walk on it,

Psalm 146:4


When his spirit leaves him, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts and plans perish.

Psalm 27:12


Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.

Ezekiel 37:6

I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin, and I will put breath in you so that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Revelation 13:15

And he is given power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast will even [appear to] speak, and cause those who do not bow down and worship the image of the beast to be put to death.

Job 4:9


“By the breath of God they perish,
And by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Ezekiel 37:9

Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 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 may live.”’”

Job 9:18


“He will not allow me to catch my breath,
But fills and saturates me with bitterness.

Genesis 7:22

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

Deuteronomy 20:16

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.

Job 11:20


“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they will not escape [the justice of God];
And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the [earthly] fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no preeminence or advantage for man [in and of himself] over an animal, for all is vanity.

Ezekiel 37:5

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

Genesis 7:15

So they went into the ark with Noah, two by two of all living beings in which there was the breath and spirit of life.

Job 34:14


“If God should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,

Lamentations 3:56


You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”

Daniel 10:17

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

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Ezekiel 37:8

And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on the bones, and flesh grew and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

Psalm 144:4


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

Psalm 18:15


Then the stream beds of the waters appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

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