I am baptizing you in water to picture your repentance. But He that is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry His shoes. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,

And He said to them, "Be gone!" And they went out of the men and got into the hogs, and suddenly the whole drove, in a stampede, rushed over the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

So I tell you, for every worthless word that men utter they will have to give account on the day of judgment;

to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in stories, I will utter truths concealed since creation."

Peter answered Him, "Lord, if it is you, let me come to you on the water."

And He said, "Come." And Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water, and he went toward Jesus.

"Lord, do pity my son, for he has epilepsy and suffers excruciating pain, and often falls into the fire or into the water.

So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

I have baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

and His clothes were shining as white as white could be, yea, whiter than any earthly bleacher could bleach them.

and many a time it has thrown him into the fire or into the water, to destroy him. But if there is anything you can do for him, do pity us and help us!"

"For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink, on the ground that you belong to Christ, I solemnly say to you, he will not fail to get his reward.

So He sent off two of His disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was governor of Galilee, and his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was governor of Abilene,

John expressly answered them all, "I am baptizing you in water only, but there is coming the One who is stronger than I am, whose shoestrings I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

When He stopped speaking, He said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and set your nets for a haul."

And turning face to face with the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him."

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not everyone of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead him out of the stable to water him?

So he called and said, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am ceaselessly tortured in this flame.'

He answered them, "Just after you enter the city, a man with a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters

John answered them, "I am baptizing only in water. There is standing among you One with whom you are not acquainted.

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."

got up from the table, took off His outer clothes, and took a towel and tied it around His waist.

Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel which was around His waist.

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into His side and blood and water at once flowed out.

"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit."

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages as the Spirit granted them to utter divine things.

While he was still clinging to Peter and John, all the people in utter amazement crowded around them in what was called Solomon's portico.

As they continued down the road, they came to some water, and the official said, "Look! here is some water! What is there to keep me from being baptized?"

So he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the official both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away; the official saw him no more, for he went on home rejoicing;

But Saul grew stronger and stronger and continued to put to utter confusion the Jews who lived in Damascus, by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

"No one can refuse the use of water, can he, for these to be baptized, since they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did ourselves?"

and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

When he knocked at the outer door, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it,

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall in utter ruin, did they? Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to heathen peoples, to make the Israelites jealous.

and all drank the same spiritual drink -- for they continued to drink the water from the spiritual Rock which accompanied them, and that Rock was the Christ --

So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.

He who always supplies the sower with seed and the eater with bread will supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest which your deeds of charity yield.

to consecrate her, after cleansing her through His word, as pictured in the water bath,

Stop drinking water only, but take a little wine to strengthen your stomach and relieve its frequent attacks.

For the first or outer part of the tent, which is called the holy place, was equipped with the lamp and table and the presentation bread.

With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;

By this the Holy Spirit was showing that there was as yet no access to the real sanctuary while the outer tent was still in existence,

For after every regulation in the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, crimson wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled the book containing the law and all the people,

let us continue to draw near to God with sincere hearts and perfect faith; with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies bathed in clean water;

A fountain cannot pour from the same opening fresh and brackish water, can it?

A fig tree, my brothers, cannot bear olives, or a grape-vine figs, can it? And a salt spring cannot furnish fresh water.

who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.

For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,

by which also the world, through being deluged with water, was destroyed.

He is the One who came through water and blood -- Jesus Christ; not through water only but through water and blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, because the Spirit is truth.

Because there are three that testify to it, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three agree.

wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame; wandering stars that are forever doomed to utter darkness.

Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and there fell from the sky a great star blazing like a torch, and it fell upon one-third of the rivers and the springs of water.

Then the serpent made water, like a river, spout from his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with its torrent.

He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

Then the third angel emptied his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

He further said to me: "They have come true. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I myself, without cost, will give to anyone who is thirsty water from the springs of living water.

Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which continued to flow from the throne of God and of the Lamb

The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let everyone who hears this say, "Come." Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let everyone who wishes come and take the living water without any cost.