Infants

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? — read the full passage →

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; — read the full passage →

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

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: — read the full passage →

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? — read the full passage →

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.