100 Bible Verses About Water
Bible verses about Water
Water, a fundamental element of life, flows through the pages of scripture as a symbol of spiritual cleansing, renewal, and the very essence of God's life-giving power. Exploring Bible verses about water unveils profound truths about our relationship with Him. From the waters of creation in Genesis to the living water offered by Jesus in John, water represents transformation, purification, and the quenching of our deepest thirst. By studying these verses, we gain a deeper understanding of God's grace, His promise of salvation, and the vital role faith plays in nurturing our souls, allowing us to flourish in His love and purpose, just as water nourishes all living things.
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Genesis 1:21 (KJV)
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Water's Wisdom: Bible Verses on Life, Cleansing, & Spirit
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.
The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward.
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
From the refreshing streams of Genesis to the life-giving river in Revelation, water permeates the scriptures as a powerful symbol. These verses demonstrate water's multifaceted role: cleansing and purifying, sustaining life both physically and spiritually, representing God's transformative grace, and even symbolizing chaos and judgment. Reflecting on these passages allows us to appreciate water not just as a common element but as a tangible representation of God's presence and power in our lives. May we thirst for the living water that Jesus offers, allowing it to purify our hearts, quench our spiritual dryness, and empower us to live a life that reflects the abundance and renewal He provides. Let these scriptures encourage us to seek His life-giving presence daily, drawing strength and sustenance from the wellspring of His love.