Scripture Folios
Genesis 2:10–12 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters: The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there. Chapter Related Exodus 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.) Chapter Related Exodus 15:25–26 And Moses cried out to the Lord , and the Lord showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the Lord made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them, saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Chapter Related Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters. Chapter Related Exodus 17:6 “Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. Chapter Related Deuteronomy 8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; Chapter Related Psalm 23:2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. Chapter Related Psalm 36:8–9 They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Chapter Related Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? Chapter Related Psalm 46:4 There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. Chapter Related Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon. Chapter Related Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, Chapter Related Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. Chapter Related Isaiah 48:21 They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out. Chapter Related Isaiah 55:1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!” Chapter Related Isaiah 58:11 The Lord will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Chapter Related Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.” Chapter Related Ezekiel 47:1 Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. Chapter Related Ezekiel 47:9 Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish. Chapter Related Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.” Chapter Related John 4:10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” Chapter Related John 4:14 “But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.” Chapter Related John 7:37–39 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. Chapter Related John 19:34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink. Chapter Related Titus 3:5–6 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, Chapter Related Revelation 7:17 “For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’” Chapter Related Revelation 21:6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.” Chapter Related Revelation 22:1–2 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Chapter Related Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely. Chapter Related
The Bible opens with a river flowing out of Eden and closes with one flowing from the throne, the tree of life on its banks and its leaves for healing. In between, water keeps arriving where it should not. Bitter water at Marah turns sweet when a log is thrown in, and God names himself the one who heals. A struck rock in the desert pours out water, and Paul says the rock was Christ; on the cross his side is pierced, and water flows. God calls himself a fountain of living water and grieves that his people have dug cisterns instead, which crack and leak. A cistern only holds what it is given; a spring makes its own. So the water is offered without money and poured out, and Isaiah, John and Titus each name what is poured: the Spirit. At a well in Samaria, Jesus promises water that becomes a spring inside the one who drinks it. The last word is an invitation: let the one who is thirsty come.