15 Bible Verses about Water For Baptism
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I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.
John said to them all, "I am only baptizing you in water, but someone is coming who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.
"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."
and I remembered the saying of the Lord, 'John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the holy Spirit.'
John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.
As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"
It was he, Jesus Christ himself, who came in water and in blood; not in water only, but in water and in blood. The Spirit also testifies to this, for the Spirit is truth.
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him. But John dissuaded him, and said, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" But Jesus answered, "Let it be so this time, for it is right for us to do everything that God requires." Then John consented.read more.
And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him, and a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, my Beloved! This is my Chosen."
It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter into him, and out of the heavens came a voice: "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"
Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"
As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?" OMITTED TEXT So he ordered the car to stop, and Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.read more.
When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,
"Can anyone refuse the use of water to baptize these people when they have received the holy Spirit just as we did?"
who had once been disobedient, when in Noah's time God in his patience waited for the ark to be made ready, in which a few people, eight in all, were brought safely through the water. Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone to heaven and is at God's right hand, with angels, hierarchies, and powers made subject to him.
