25 Bible Verses about Christian Baptism

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

“Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water! What would keep me from being baptized?”

Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

“Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Then even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptized, he went around constantly with Philip and was astounded as he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.

For He had not yet come down on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.

I did, in fact, baptize the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don’t know if I baptized anyone else.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize—not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied of its effect.

Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?