Acts 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.'

Acts 2:38

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

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Acts 2:21

And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!"

Romans 6:3-4

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

1 Corinthians 12:13

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

Galatians 3:27

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Titus 3:5

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3:21

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you -- not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Psalm 119:60

I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.

Jeremiah 8:14

The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

Acts 9:18

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

Romans 10:12-14

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

1 Corinthians 1:2

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Bible References

Why

Psalm 119:60
I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.
Jeremiah 8:14
The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

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