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19 Bible Verses About Baptism, and Where Christians Read Them Differently

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Summary

  • In the New Testament baptism is always received from someone else, and 1 Corinthians 12:13 gives its purpose: “so as to form one body.”
  • Paul’s image in Romans 6 is a funeral: going under is burial, coming up is resurrection.
  • 1 Peter 3:21 says baptism saves, “not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God,” through the resurrection of Jesus.
  • Churches that baptise infants read Colossians 2:11-12 and the households of Acts; churches that baptise believers read Mark 16:16 and Luke’s order of faith then water. Both readings are old and serious.
  • Both traditions practice baptism as a command of Jesus, and in Acts 22:16 Ananias asks Paul, “why do you wait?”

Baptism is commanded by Jesus, and the apostles describe it as being joined to him in his death and resurrection. In the New Testament it is always received from someone else, and it brings a person into the church. Christians agree on much of what these texts say and differ on whether infants should be baptized. The nineteen verses below cover the command, what baptism is said to do, water and the Spirit, one baptism in one body, the people…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version and the New International Version, following the renderings already carried on this page.

Acts 1:3 puts forty days between the resurrection and the ascension; Pentecost falls fifty days after Passover, which leaves the ten days of Acts 1:5.

The Ethiopian official’s standing under the law is described at Deuteronomy 23:1 and reversed at Isaiah 56:3-5.

The disagreement summarised at the end is between the paedobaptist reading of Colossians 2:11-12 with Acts 16:15 and 16:33, and the credobaptist reading of Acts 8:12 and Mark 16:16.

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