Ezekiel 47:9
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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.
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The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
“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!
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.”
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.