“He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.””
— WEB
John 7:38
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“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
— KJV
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water.”
— ASV
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Commentary
as the scripture hath said--These words belong to what follows, "Out of his belly, as the scripture hath said, shall flow," &c. referring not to any particular passage, but to such as Isa 58:11; Joe 3:18; Zac 14:8; Eze 47:1-12; in most of which the idea is that of waters issuing from beneath the temple, to which our Lord compares Himself and those who believe in Him. out of his belly--that is, his inner man, his soul, as in Pro 20:27. rivers of living water--(See on Joh 4:13). It refers primarily to the copiousness, but indirectly also to the diffusiveness, of this living water to the good of others.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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