Matthew 3:6

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Summary

Matthew 3:6

And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Were

Confessing

1 John 1:9

General references

Luke 1:16

Bible References

Were

I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the holy Spirit."

John said to them all, "I baptize you with water, but after me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

so they asked him, saying, "Then why are you baptizing people, if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, as there was plenty of water there, and people came to him and were baptized

"for John baptized with water, but not many days after this you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit."

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

and I remembered the saying of the Lord, that 'John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit.'

"John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

all were baptized into Moses by the cloud and by the sea,

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

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

with instruction about ablutions and the laying on of hands, about the resurrection of the dead and eternal punishment.

since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

Confessing

and the whole of Judaea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him and got baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.

I will be up and off to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.

Many believers would also come to confess and disclose their magic spells;

And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

General references

he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,