Infant And Adult Baptism

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.

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 →

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

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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.

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

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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.”

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? — read the full passage →

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.

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.”

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.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

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,

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.

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;

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

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

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

At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. — read the full passage →

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. — read the full passage →

Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

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 →

named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

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 →

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

(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,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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.

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. — read the full passage →

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

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 →

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 →

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body. — read the full passage →

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 →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — 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.

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

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. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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. — read the full passage →

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

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

They were about twelve men in all.

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

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

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 →

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.” — read the full passage →

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

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

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

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless. — read the full passage →

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. — read the full passage →

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands); — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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

If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — 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.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.