39 Bible Verses about breathing

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

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for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

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

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

By the Lord's decree the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created.

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,

The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

This is what the true God, the Lord, says -- the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

Their life's breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

And after he said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.

I will praise the Lord as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

The second beast was empowered to give life to the image of the first beast so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did 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 are consumed.

He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, -- prophesy, son of man -- and say to the breath: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.'"

He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

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

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!"

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

How, sir, am I able to speak with you? My strength is gone, and I am breathless."

and listened to me. As long as I live, I will call to him when I need help.

"Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

The Lord knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, Lord, by the powerful breath from your nose.