- Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
- And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.
- So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.
- Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”
- For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
- For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
- On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
- Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
- Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?
So acknowledge today and take to heart that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.Next verse!With image