Baptizing Children

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.

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

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” — read the full passage →

Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, — read the full passage →

(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don’t know whether I baptized any other.)

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;

When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. — read the full passage →

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. — read the full passage →

It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. — read the full passage →

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →