"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

"The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words which I have been speaking to you, are spirit and are life.

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

Thus it is written. The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving Spirit.

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon them.

And he showed me the river of the Water of Life, clear as crystal, Flowing out from the throne of God, and of the Lamb,

Hath

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

From

in order that as sin has ruled as king in death, so also grace might rule as king in righteousness which issues in eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord,??urs!

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

General references

"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.