100 Bible Verses about Breathing

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 191 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Job 33:4 ESV / 152 helpful votes

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

Job 27:3 ESV / 137 helpful votes

As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

John 20:22 ESV / 132 helpful votes

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 108 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Isaiah 42:5 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

Isaiah 40:7 ESV / 103 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.

Ezekiel 37:9 ESV / 101 helpful votes

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 may live.”

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 101 helpful votes

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

Acts 17:25 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

Psalm 33:6 ESV / 88 helpful votes

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Isaiah 2:22 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

Job 34:14-15 ESV / 76 helpful votes

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 104:29-30 ESV / 73 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 20:19-23 ESV / 70 helpful votes

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 67 helpful votes

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 63 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Genesis 7:22 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

Ezekiel 37:10 ESV / 59 helpful votes

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Job 32:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! ...

Psalm 6:5 ESV / 49 helpful votes

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

2 Peter 1:19-21 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 9:17 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

John 17:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Job 32:7-8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’ But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

Job 4:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

2 Samuel 23:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Psalm 18:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

Luke 23:46 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Ezekiel 37:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Ezekiel 37:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Job 34:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

John 20:21-22 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel 37:5-6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Genesis 6:17 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Acts 9:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

John 3:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Daniel 10:17 ESV / 39 helpful votes

How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”

Job 41:21 ESV / 39 helpful votes

His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

Job 37:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

Job 12:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Genesis 7:15 ESV / 39 helpful votes

They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.

Daniel 5:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Psalm 27:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

1 Timothy 6:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

John 10:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 115:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

Job 32:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes

I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

2 Peter 1:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

Job 26:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

John 20:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

John 10:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Revelation 19:1-21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” Once more they cried out, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.” ...

Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 29 helpful votes

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 33:1-22 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. ...

1 Kings 17:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Genesis 2:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Isaiah 11:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Job 15:30 ESV / 28 helpful votes

He will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.

Jeremiah 10:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Isaiah 30:33 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Ezekiel 37:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.

Job 33:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Psalm 104:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

2 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,

John 10:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Ezekiel 37:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.

Job 34:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

Job 9:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes

He will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Isaiah 42:1-25 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law. Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: ...

Psalm 104:30 ESV / 17 helpful votes

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

2 Peter 1:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

Job 33:1-33 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely. The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. ...

Daniel 10:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.

Job 27:1-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And Job again took up his discourse, and said: “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. ...

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

2 Peter 1:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Isaiah 42:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.

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