Matthew 23:9
you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;
John 13:8
Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot."
Acts 22:16
And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'
1 Corinthians 1:21
For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.
1 Corinthians 1:27
No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;
1 Corinthians 4:15
You may have thousands to superintend you in Christ, but you have not more than one father. It was I who in Christ Jesus became your father by means of the gospel.
Ephesians 5:26-27
to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession,
Titus 3:5
and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart, in absolute assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience, and our bodies washed in pure water;
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.