100 Bible Verses about Rebaptism

Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And 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, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ...

Acts 2:38 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “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.

Acts 19:1-7 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And 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, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ...

Ephesians 4:4-5 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Acts 10:48 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Acts 2:41 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 6:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 6:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

John 3:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Acts 19:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 16:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

John 4:1-54 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

2 John 1:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Colossians 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

Acts 2:47 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Acts 8:38-39 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

1 John 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Colossians 2:11-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Acts 8:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 8:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

Mark 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

Mark 1:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

James 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Romans 6:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

Acts 16:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

Acts 10:47-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Acts 10:44-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Acts 10:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

John 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

1 Peter 3:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Galatians 3:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...

Romans 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 19:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And 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, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 10:47 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Acts 10:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Acts 9:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;

John 3:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Luke 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Mark 6:8-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. ...

Mark 1:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

James 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

Colossians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Romans 6:3-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Acts 19:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And 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, Jesus.”

Acts 18:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.

Acts 8:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 8:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Acts 8:35-36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Acts 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 8:16-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! ...

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 1:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

John 1:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Mark 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Matthew 3:13-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Matthew 3:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Revelation 13:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.