What does the Bible Say About Baptism?
Bible Verses on Baptism
The Bible says
Baptism is for the remission of sins.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and
be baptized, and wash away thy sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
The Bible says there is only one Baptism.
Eph 4:5
One Lord, one faith,
one baptism,
The Bible says it’s
in water.
1 Peter 3:20-21
(20)
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in
the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
(21)
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Mark 1:9-10
(9)
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee,
and was baptized of John in Jordan.
(10)
And straightway coming up out of the water, he
saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Acts 8:38-39
(38)
And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the
water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
(39)
And when they were come up out of the water,
the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more:
and he went on his way rejoicing.
The Bible says it
saves us.
Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but
he that believeth not shall be damned.
1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
The Bible says baptism accompanies the
gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost.
Gal 4:6
And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
The Bible says
baptism brings us into contact with the blood of Christ.
Col 2:11-13
(11) In
whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in
putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
(12) Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of
the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
(13) And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he
quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and
the blood: and these three agree in one.
The Bible says
baptism places us “in Christ”
Gal 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Col 3:2
3:1 If ye then be
risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
The Bible says
baptism regenerates us into a new creature.
2 Cor 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new.
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy
he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
The Bible says
baptism is a likeness of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
Rom 6:4-5
(4)
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life.
(5)
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Col 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the
faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
The Bible says
baptism is commanded.
Matt 28:19-20
(19) Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
(20)
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo,
I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Acts 10:48
And
he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they
him to tarry certain days.
The Bible says
Baptism is necessary
John 3:5
Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.”
Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Matt 3:13-15
(13)
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan
unto John, to be baptized of him.
(14)
But John forbad him, saying, I have need
to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
(15)
And Jesus answering said unto him,
Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Then he suffered him.
What Does the Bible say about John's
Baptism?
John's baptism was in water
Mark 1:8
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the
Holy Ghost.
John 1:26
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water : but there standeth one
among you, whom ye know not;
John 3:23
And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much
water there: and they came, and were baptized.
Acts 11:16
Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said,
John indeed baptized with water ; but ye
shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Johns baptism was the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins
Matt 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance :
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy
to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Acts 19:4
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying
unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after
him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Mark 1:4
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for
the remission of sins.
Luke 3:3
And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins;
Those who refused John's Baptism
Rejected the Counsel of God.
Luke 7:29-30
(29)
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being
baptized with the baptism of John.
(30)
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against
themselves, being not baptized of him.
21 THINGS BAPTISM
DOES
1)
PROVIDES REMISSION OF SINS
ACTS 2:38, Col 2:12-13
2)
IT ADDS ONE TO THE LORD’S
CHURCH ACTS
2:47
3)
IT PROVIDES ACCESS TO ALL
SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS EPHESIANS
1:3
4)
IT ALLOWS SAINTS ACCESS TO
THE THRONE OF GOD HEBREWS 4:6
5)
IT PLACES ONE IN
CHRIST
ROMANS 6:3,4; GALATIANS 3:27
6)
IT PROVIDES CHRIST AS
MEDIATOR
1 TIM 2:5
7)
IT
SAVES
1 PETER 3:21
8)
IT ALLOWS US TO CALL GOD
OUR FATHER ROMANS
8:15
9)
IT IS THE AVENUE BY WHICH
GOD ADOPTS US ROMANS
8:15
10)
IT TRANSLATES US INTO THE
KINGDOM OF HIS SON COLOSSIANS
1:13
11)
IT GIVES US A NEW
NAME
ACTS 11:26
12)
IT PROVIDES CHRIST AS OUR
INTERCESSOR ROMANS
8:34
13)
IT ENABLES US TO WALK IN A
NEW LIFE
ROMANS 6:4
14)
IT DESTROYS THE OLD MAN OF
SIN
ROMANS 6:6
15)
IT MAKES US A NEW
CREATURE
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
16)
IT SANCTIFIES US
JUDE 1
17)
IT JUSTIFIES
US
ROMANS 8:33
18)
IT REDEEMS
US
1 PETER 1:18
19)
IT PROVIDES US WITH A
LIVELY HOPE
1 PETER 1:3
20)
IT WASHES AWAY
SINS
ACTS 22:16
21)
IT MAKES US CO-PARTICIPANTS
IN CHRIST’S DEATH,
BURIAL AND RESURRECTION
ROMANS 6:4-5
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