The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come let the one who desires take the water of life without price. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb –Īdditional verses about Jesus as the living water in the Bible: In Revelation 22:1, the Bible talks of the river of the water of life that flows from the throne of God. Here, Jesus refers to the water that He is to give the woman as the living water, and He goes ahead to say He is the source of that water which springs up to eternal life. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” – John 4:10-15 (ESV) Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. In the well-known story of the Samaritan woman by the well, Jesus tells her: In both the Old and New Testaments, the word “water” is used as a symbol for salvation and eternal life, which God offers us through faith in his Son. Water closed over my head I said, ‘I am lost.’ – Lamentations 3:54 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found While there was an option for people to follow the right way, God through Jeremiah points out the faulty thinking.Ī few other verses which reinforce the symbolism of water in the Bible as difficulties in our Christian lives: To drink the waters of the Euphrates?- Jeremiah 2:18īoth the water of the Nile and the waters of the Euphrates are used symbolically to portray the falsities from reasonings that people were turning to and away from God. The prophet Jeremiah talks of waters and rivers as symbols of falsities and difficulties:Īnd now what do you gain by going to Egypt Water in the Bible is also used to denote difficult times in life, especially for us, God’s children. In this verse, we see a contrast between the gently flowing waters, which refer to spiritual things and the strong waters which point to falsities. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, – Isaiah 8:6-7 (ESV) “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. In one such instance, in Isaiah 8:6-7, the Bible talks of the waters that flow gently. There are numerous verses of water in the Bible pointing to the correlation between water and spiritual things.
The Spirit was poured on the day of Pentecost to empower members so they could go forth and make disciples.
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, asthe Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
In John 7:37-39 Jesus gave a prophecy about the Spirit that would later come and referred to him as the living water. The symbolism of water in the Bible is used in numerous verses to refer to the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. Water is mentioned in the second verse of the Bible, in Genesis 1:2
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