Birth Of A Baby

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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 didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

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

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

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

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

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

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

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,

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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;

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; — read the full passage →

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

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

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius, — read the full passage →

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.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

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

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized. — read the full passage →

John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”