What does the Bible say about well of water?
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The Bible presents water as a powerful picture of God’s life-giving grace, which alone satisfies the thirsty soul and restores His people. Isaiah 12:3 invites God’s redeemed to draw joyfully from the wells of salvation, while Isaiah 44:3 promises the outpouring of God’s Spirit on the spiritually dry. Jesus declares in John 4:10, 14 that He gives living water, producing eternal life in all who receive Him by faith. John 7:37-39 identifies this water with the Holy Spirit, given to believers through Christ. In contrast, Jeremiah 2:13 rebukes those who forsake God, the fountain of living waters, for empty substitutes. Revelation 21:6 assures the final, free satisfaction of all who belong to Him.
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- Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
- John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
- John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- John 7:37-39
[37] Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! [38] He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water." [39] But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
- John 7:38
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
- Revelation 21:6
He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
- Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.
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