Should we be Water Baptized

13 Bible Verses About Water Baptism

Baptism is an important event in the believer’s walk with Jesus Christ.
The Bible talks about both water immersion baptism in which a believer
makes a public confession of their faith. Jesus lead the way in example
of water baptism!

If you are wondering what it means to be baptized in the Christian faith,
these verses should point you in the right direction and help you
understand what it means to be baptized.

1) Acts 2:38-41
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom
the Lord our God will call.” 40 With many other words he warned them;
and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand
were added to their number that day.

2) 1 Corinthians 12:13
For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether
Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

3) 1 Peter 3:21
and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal
of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.
It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

4) Acts 10:48
So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.

5) Acts 22:16
And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and
wash your sins away, calling on his name.’

6) Colossians 2:12
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were
also raised with him through your faith in the working of God,
who raised him from the dead.

7) Galatians 3:27
for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

8) Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does
not believe will be condemned.

9) Luke 3:21-22
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too.
And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended
on him in bodily form like a dove.
And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

10) Matthew 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

11) Acts 8:36-38
As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the
eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized? ”
And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down
into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water,
the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see
him again, but went on his way rejoicing.

12) Acts 16:31-33
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.
At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds;
then immediately he and all his household were baptized.

13) Romans 6:1-18
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried
with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised
from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly
also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our
old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done
away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who
has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe
that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised
from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,
but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life;
and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death,
or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that,
though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the
pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been
set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

There is still many scriptures talking about being baptized in water. To be baptized do not save you and neither do the sprinkling of water which is not scriptural. To be Born Again we need to Believe, repent and follow Jesus.

Obedience is better than Sacrifice