Jesus taught eternal security to a Samaritan woman

[FreeGrace]

John 4:
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

The "gift of God" and "living water" in v.10 speaks of eternal life.

The woman was thinking of literal water in v.11.

Jesus noted in v.13 that drinking literal water doesn't satisfy permanently, but will get thirsty (need for literal water) again.

In v.14 Jesus explains that "the water I give them" will NEVER thirst again. Further, when He said "whoever drinks the water I given them" He used the aorist tense for "drinks". The metaphor of "drinking" indicates believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life, which is the orthodox evangelical understanding of saving faith.

Paul, as well, used the aorist tense in his answer to the jailer who asked him "what must I do to be saved?". The answer was to "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved."

iow, from a point in time drink of the water He gives, one will NEVER thirst again. Unlike literal water, which doesn't permanently satisfy one's thirst, and they will thirst again.

If salvation or eternal life can be lost, removed, taken away, etc, then what Jesus told her could not be true.

 

[FreeGrace]

When Jesus said (in v.14) " but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.", He was speaking either lilterally or figuratively.

If literal, which is what the woman thought by her response in v.15 - “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”, then Jesus was referring to some kind of magic elixir that, if drunk, would mean the drinker would never get physically thirsty again, which is obviously wrong.

So, we know that He was speaking figuratively in v.14. So, if He wasn't speaking of believing in Him for eternal life, what could He be referring to?

 

[JLB]

John 4:
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

The "gift of God" and "living water" in v.10 speaks of eternal life.

The woman was thinking of literal water in v.11.

Jesus noted in v.13 that drinking literal water doesn't satisfy permanently, but will get thirsty (need for literal water) again.

In v.14 Jesus explains that "the water I give them" will NEVER thirst again. Further, when He said "whoever drinks the water I given them" He used the aorist tense for "drinks". The metaphor of "drinking" indicates believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life, which is the orthodox evangelical understanding of saving faith.

Paul, as well, used the aorist tense in his answer to the jailer who asked him "what must I do to be saved?". The answer was to "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved."

iow, from a point in time drink of the water He gives, one will NEVER thirst again. Unlike literal water, which doesn't permanently satisfy one's thirst, and they will thirst again.

If salvation or eternal life can be lost, removed, taken away, etc, then what Jesus told her could not be true.

Please notice this phrase: the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Notice that it is not instantaneous, but shown to be a process of becoming.

Become is a word associated with us becoming sons of God, as well.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:12 KJV


It is during the process that the danger of turning away, falling away, or departing from the Living God, is relevant.

Which is why we are taught to continue in the faith, to the end, for it is at the end we receive eternal life.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23

• you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

The end result of a life of righteousness and holiness is eternal life.


God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
Romans 2:6-8

• Eternal life is granted at the end, to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

• God renders to each one according to his deeds:

God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:

• eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
• but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

JLB

 

[chessman]

Become is a word associated with us becoming sons of God, as well.

WRT John 4, is it your interpretation that Jesus is saying the drinker becomes the well?

John 4:14 (LEB) But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” ​

The water (a gift) becomes a well in him (the drinker). Nowhere does it say or imply the drinker ever becomes the well through a process.

 

[Nathan]

Well.....this is a deep subject.........

I think we have to understand the metaphoric language used here. Jesus was at a well, and talking about water. So He used them as examples, not literal spiritual things.

To 'thirst' is to desire something. Jesus used the same type of metaphoric language with food - that they would not hunger any more.

So the point of not being "thirsty" ever again, was the point of not desiring another source of truth that can satisfy. Once you taste of the truth of Christ, you do not desire anyone else's truth. Water = Truth = Spirit

Once truth is inside you it grows by the working of the Spirit - metaphorically 'springs up' - this truth leads us to eternal life. Not only that, but as this springing up continues it also is a well unto others.

John 7:37-39
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart(speaking of Himself) will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

If the Spirit of God is in you, then you do not desire another source of truth. The Spirit inside you is the source of this continual water(truth). Notice what He said, "the water will become a source" not that they would become a source for the water.

Now, to say that this is eternal life is independent of God is not true. God is the source, the Spirit of God inside is the continual source. This is not something that you posses, but something that lives in you. You are simply the 'well' - a vessel.

So does this teach eternal security? In one regard yes - you can be eternally secure in the knowledge that the Spirit is the only source of eternal truth and life. In the other regard no - if you forsake the truth in you then you forsake the living water and it becomes a dead water - void of life.

James 3:11 - Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

I find it no small chance that the "Dead Sea" is right smack dab in the middle of the land of Israel. Why is it dead? Because it has inflow - but no outflow. Water flows into it, but not out of it. If you 'cap of' the living water of the Spirit of God inside you, it will become dead. Of no use.

James gives one of the best analogies of this. If what comes out of you is not fresh water, it is not the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:13 - For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

How can this happen? It is when someone slowly but surely grieves the Spirit. Sin left remaining in a persons life is like stones put into a fresh stream. Eventually those stones can build a dam, which will stop the flow.

1 Timothy 4:1-3
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

This really can be taken further, but it just leads down other trails. Point is, the water is the Spirit of God in us, not something of ourselves. We don't own the water. God does. We receive life from the water, as long as we want to receive it. This water is eternal so we can find comfort that it will never run out and there is nothing that is better than it.

 

[Kidron]

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Jesus IS eternal life.
Jesus IS salvation.
"God who (not you) God WHO BEGAN a good work in you (saved you) will be FAITHFUL TO > complete it <... Philip 1:6
"" Jesus (not you) who is the Author and FINISHER OF YOUR FAITH...(not you).... Hebrew 12:2
If you have Him (born again) then you were saved once, and for all.

"but what about over in Hebrews 4,6,10, where James said that thing about dead faith so that in Matthew 25 i could twist the scriptures to continue to confuse myself with my own spiritual ignorant darkness while i keep uselessly confessing sins that Jesus ALREADY died for and God does not hold against me EVER AGAIN "... Romans 4: 8.

> Exactly.

 

[chessman]

Notice what He said, "the water will become a source" not that they would become a source for the water.

True
The water becomes the well (the source of the water) not the drinker.

You are simply the 'well' - a vessel.

Huh?
Are not your two statements at odds with each other?

 

[FreeGrace]

Please notice this phrase: the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Notice that it is not instantaneous, but shown to be a process of becoming.

Become is a word associated with us becoming sons of God, as well.

Was Jesus speaking literally or figuratively in v.14? That's the first question that must be answered in order to understand what Jesus meant.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:12 KJV

Does the verse say how long it takes to "become the sons of God"? No. So, when does that happen? Provide Scripture to support your answer.

It is during the process that the danger of turning away, falling away, or departing from the Living God, is relevant.

How is that relevant to what Jesus told the Samaritan woman? He was clear about what He was offering:
a single drink from His water results in NEVER thirsting. Such a response to a single drink is IMMEDIATE. iow, no more thirst. Ever.

Which is why we are taught to continue in the faith, to the end, for it is at the end we receive eternal life.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23

• you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

Except the passage doesn't say that eternal life is something future. What is future is eternity. Living in eternity. But Jesus was clear about WHEN one HAS eternal life:
John 5:24 - “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me HAS eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

Therefore, John 5:24 proves that WHEN one believes in Jesus Christ, they HAVE, as in the PRESENT TENSE, eternal life.

The end result of a life of righteousness and holiness is eternal life.

This is what the Pharisees of Jesus' day thought, too. And Jesus condemned for their ideas.

God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
Romans 2:6-8

Except Rom 3:20 refutes the notion that anyone has ever fulfilled Rom 2:7.
3:20 - Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Do you believe that anyone who could keep the Mosaic Law would result in a life of righteousness and holiness?

Eternal life is granted at the end, to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

Please provide any verse that demonstrates anyone having eternal life through "patient continuance in doing good".

God renders to each one according to his deeds:
God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:

This truth is found in the judgment of believers (2 Cor 5:10) and unbelievers (Rev 20:11-15).

For believers, their deeds will be the basis for reward (2 Jn 8) and for unbelievers, their deeds will be the basis of how "tolerable" the lake of fire will be. Jesus taught that it will be "more tolerable" for some than for others at the judgment in:
Matt 10:15, 11:22, 24, Mark 6:11, Luke 10:12, 14.

 

[FreeGrace]

Well.....this is a deep subject.........

So does this teach eternal security? In one regard yes - you can be eternally secure in the knowledge that the Spirit is the only source of eternal truth and life. In the other regard no - if you forsake the truth in you then you forsake the living water and it becomes a dead water - void of life.

What verse or passage supports the notion that living water becomes a dead water? It seems to me this is just made up to support your view.

James gives one of the best analogies of this. If what comes out of you is not fresh water, it is not the Holy Spirit.

There is no reason to look to any other Scripture to understand what Jesus was saying metaphorically.

 

[Nathan]

True
The water becomes the well (the source of the water) not the drinker.


Huh?
Are not your two statements at odds with each other?

Some look at the water as the well - water 'welling'. The other statement is describing the container housing the welling of the water.

It's a perspective and semantics point of view.

 

[Nathan]

What verse or passage supports the notion that living water becomes a dead water? It seems to me this is just made up to support your view.


There is no reason to look to any other Scripture to understand what Jesus was saying metaphorically.

The passage in James is to show what the difference is between living and dead water. Not to explain Jesus statements, but to refute yours.

Also;
James 1:12-15
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

 

[Nathan]

The passage in James is to show what the difference is between living and dead water. Not to explain Jesus statements, but to refute yours.

Also;
James 1:12-15
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Therfore, what James went on to say, a spring(us) will only produce fresh water if it's alive. If it dies, then it becomes dead water. Death comes from sin.

 

[FreeGrace]

The passage in James is to show what the difference is between living and dead water. Not to explain Jesus statements, but to refute yours.

Where does one find "living water or dead water" in James? He did talk about salt and fresh water, sure. But since there are MANY kinds of living organisms in salt water, your point is lost.

To refute my view, one must provide a logical and reasonable explanation of what Jesus meant by a single drink (aorist tense) resulting in NEVER thirsting again.

Also;
James 1:12-15
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Apparently some think v15 speaks of spiritual death. So, if that were true, how many times would a person's sins result in spiritual death?

I believe Paul taught that we are all born spiritually dead. At birth. So how can the condition of spiritual death be repeated?

Doesn't that sound kind of silly?

Anyway, the question stands. How many times can a person die spiritually, given your view?

 

[chessman]

Some look at the water as the well - water 'welling'. The other statement is describing the container housing the welling of the water.

It's a perspective and semantics point of view.

Okay. But these two perspectives differ in that they oppose one another. Do you believe both?

One is that the drinker drinks a gift (living water) and that the gift remains "in him" quenching his thirst eternally. It is the water that becomes eternal life (not the drinker).

The other perspective is that the drinker becomes the well.

'But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will become a well (a vessel, a container, a noun).

One perspective (the first) is accurate to the Text.

The other is not. The word for "well" is a verb in Jesus' statement, not a noun.

 

[Nathan]

Okay. But these two perspectives differ in that they oppose one another. Do you believe both?

One is that the drinker drinks a gift (living water) and that the gift remains "in him" quenching his thirst eternally. It is the water that becomes eternal life (not the drinker).

The other perspective is that the drinker becomes the well.

'But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will become a well (a vessel, a container, a noun).

One perspective (the first) is accurate to the Text.

The other is not. The word for "well" is a verb in Jesus' statement, not a noun.

Your seeing it the way I am. I only mean the person is the 'well' in regards to a vessel, think of it as a rock structure. The "well"(verb) is in side him that "wells up"(springing), but he is the "well"(noun - him), that contains the essence of the "well"(noun - Spirit).

Three parts of the sentence, I just interpreted them separately and metaphorically. The rock structure is us. The Spirit is the water inside. The 'eternal life' is that the Spirit keeps on producing fresh water.

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him(rock structure) will become in him a spring of water(Spirit) welling up(action of Spirit) to eternal life.”

The inference of this is that it is the Spirit that gives life eternal, because the Spirit is eternal. Its not a "thing" - eternal life - that we are given, but the Spirit that continually nourishes us. The same analogy can be used with food.

John 6:35 - Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

 

[chessman]

The "well"(verb) is in side him that "wells up"(springing), but he is the "well"(noun - him), that contains the essence of the "well"(noun - Spirit).

Well now, that's all well and good. Very well then. (Just kidding).

Okay. I see your point, now.

 

[Nathan]

Where does one find "living water or dead water" in James? He did talk about salt and fresh water, sure. But since there are MANY kinds of living organisms in salt water, your point is lost.

To refute my view, one must provide a logical and reasonable explanation of what Jesus meant by a single drink (aorist tense) resulting in NEVER thirsting again.


Apparently some think v15 speaks of spiritual death. So, if that were true, how many times would a person's sins result in spiritual death?

I believe Paul taught that we are all born spiritually dead. At birth. So how can the condition of spiritual death be repeated?

Doesn't that sound kind of silly?

Anyway, the question stands. How many times can a person die spiritually, given your view?

Actually, nothing lives in the dead sea(hint - 'dead' sea). Sin does not cause death immediately in the life of a believer. That sin has to reach full maturity before death can take place. How much time is that? Who knows. I don't want to find out. But we know it can cause death. The salt water analogy James was using was just to let the reader know if they start seeing this 'salt' water they need to understand it is no longer fresh water. The dead sea did not just one day turn into a dead sea. It took a while, but eventually the fresh water entering it was unable to support life.

2 Peter 1:3-11
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

This is the continual flow of the Spirit in our lives. If we 'cap' off the flow, we become 'unfruitful', become blind, even to the point of forgetting that we were cleansed from our former sins - then death comes from falling away from the faith of Christ.

The single "drink" is faith. We receive faith. That is the "drink" that happens. After that drink, the Spirit comes to live in us, and then the waters start to flow.

I do not know when spiritual death occurs in a believer. I am not God. I know He strives with us, and comes looking for us when we wonder away. That sin will only result in spiritual death one time. We are born spiritually dead, and then made alive by God's Spirit - if we die again then that's it. You cant go back and forth in spiritual death/living.

Just committing a sin does not mean you die spiritually. It is only when that sin is allowed to grow in your life and it reaches maturity - which leads you away from God.

God is Holy and cannot dwell with sin. Jesus constantly is making intersession for us. We may sin, but when we confess that sin He cleans it from us. If we regard that sin, keep it because we want it, and then become sin'full' - God cannot dwell with sin. The life giving Spirit is cut off by our choice, not God's. We then die and spend eternity separated from Him.

This is not His desire.

That is why He so many times gives us warnings and encouragements that our sin is already paid for - we just need to come to Him for the cleansing power.

 

[civilwarbuff]

Please notice this phrase: the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

Notice that it is not instantaneous, but shown to be a process of becoming.

Become is a word associated with us becoming sons of God, as well.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:12 KJV

As usual, it depends on the translation you are using:

14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
KJV:
14 But G1161 whosoever G3739 G302 drinketh G4095 of G1537 the water G5204 that G3739 I G1473 shall give G1325 himG846 shall G1372 never G1519 G165 G3364 thirst G1372; but G235 the water G5204 that G3739 I shall give G1325 himG846 shall be G1096 in G1722 him G846 a well G4077 of water G5204 springing up G242 into G1519 everlasting G166 lifeG2222.

As can be seen the words 'wil become' don't appear here.....In fact the words used here imply present and future tense......

 

[misbehaved11]

John 4:
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

The "gift of God" and "living water" in v.10 speaks of eternal life.

The woman was thinking of literal water in v.11.

Jesus noted in v.13 that drinking literal water doesn't satisfy permanently, but will get thirsty (need for literal water) again.

In v.14 Jesus explains that "the water I give them" will NEVER thirst again. Further, when He said "whoever drinks the water I given them" He used the aorist tense for "drinks". The metaphor of "drinking" indicates believing in Jesus Christ for eternal life, which is the orthodox evangelical understanding of saving faith.

Paul, as well, used the aorist tense in his answer to the jailer who asked him "what must I do to be saved?". The answer was to "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved."

iow, from a point in time drink of the water He gives, one will NEVER thirst again. Unlike literal water, which doesn't permanently satisfy one's thirst, and they will thirst again.

If salvation or eternal life can be lost, removed, taken away, etc, then what Jesus told her could not be true.

How does The "gift of God" and "living water" in v.10 speaks of eternal life.

"...from a point in time drink of the water He gives, one will NEVER thirst again."

Matthew 5:6
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

Proverbs 27:20

"Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied."

John 6:35

"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."

1 John 1:2
"(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)"

John 17:3
"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

1 John 2:25
"And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."

John 14:3
"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Titus 1:2
"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"

 

[FreeGrace]

How does The "gift of God" and "living water" in v.10 speaks of eternal life.

Good Question. The "living water" that Jesus was offering resulted in never thirsting again in v.14. And at the end of v.14, He said this: "the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life". It should be quite clear that living water is eternal life.

Further, Romans 6:23 describes eternal life as a gift of God.

"...from a point in time drink of the water He gives, one will NEVER thirst again."

Matthew 5:6
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

Does this verse contradict what Jesus said in John 4:14? Matt 5 is a different context than John 4.

Proverbs 27:20

"Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied."

Please provide some explanation for why this verse was quoted.

John 6:35

"And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."

Same principle as in John 4:14. Whether eating or drinking, what Jesus provides results in NEVER being hungry or thirsty again.

1 John 1:2
"(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)"

Please provide some explanation for why this verse is relevant to the OP.

John 17:3
"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

Ditto.

1 John 2:25
"And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."

Ditto.

John 14:3
"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

Ditto.

Titus 1:2
"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"

There are a lot of verses here without any explanation for why they are being quoted. Why?