‘Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’

‘I am crucified with Christ:  nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:  and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.’

‘In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.’

‘But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us’

‘Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.’

‘His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.’

‘Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced:  for God had made them rejoice with great joy:  the wives also and the children rejoiced:  so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.’

‘And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

‘Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.  But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.’

‘And Moses was content to dwell with the man:  and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.’

‘And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.’

‘And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.’

‘And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.’

‘And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.’ —Genesis 16:7