Psalm 42:2
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2 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God?(A)
Psalm 63:1
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Psalm 63
Comfort and Assurance in God’s Presence
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
1 O God, you are my God; I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.(A)
Psalm 84:10
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10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than live in the tents of wickedness.(A)
Psalm 27:4
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4 One thing I asked of the Lord;
this I seek:
to live in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in his temple.(A)
Revelation 22:1
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The River of Life
22 Then the angel[a] showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb(A)
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John 7:37
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Rivers of Living Water
37 On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,(A)
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Psalm 84:2
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2 My soul longs, indeed it faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
to the living God.(A)
Psalm 36:8-9
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8 They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.(A)
9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.(B)
Psalm 84:4
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4 Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise. Selah(A)
Psalm 43:4
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4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the harp,
O God, my God.(A)
Job 23:3
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3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him,
that I might come even to his dwelling!(A)
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.(A)
1 Thessalonians 1:9
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9 For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God(A)
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John 5:26
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26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,
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Psalm 84:7
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7 They go from strength to strength;
the God of gods will be seen in Zion.(A)
Exodus 23:17
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17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
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Daniel 6:26
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26 I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people shall tremble and fear before the God of Daniel:
For he is the living God,
enduring forever.
His kingdom shall never be destroyed,
and his dominion has no end.(A)
Jeremiah 10:10
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10 But the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
and the nations cannot endure his indignation.[a](A)
Joshua 3:10
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10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that among you is the living God who without fail will drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites:(A)
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