Infants

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

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

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.

“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.”

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

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

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

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

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Hazael said, “Why do you weep, my lord?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel. You will set their strongholds on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child.”

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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,

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,

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

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

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.

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.

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 →

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.” — read the full passage →

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

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

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

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

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”