100 Bible Verses about Immersing By Water When Baptize

Acts 2:38 ESV / 26 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.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Colossians 2:12 ESV / 24 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.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 24 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.

Acts 8:38 ESV / 24 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.

John 3:23 ESV / 20 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

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 18 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,

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 18 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,

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

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

John 3:5 ESV / 16 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.

Acts 10:48 ESV / 13 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.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 12 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,

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 12 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.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 12 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. ...

Acts 18:8 ESV / 12 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 8:36 ESV / 12 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?”

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 12 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 3:16 ESV / 12 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 Peter 3:20-21 ESV / 10 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,

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.

Acts 10:47-48 ESV / 10 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 / 10 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 8:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 8:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:36-39 ESV / 10 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. 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.

John 4:1-2 ESV / 10 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),

Luke 11:38 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.

Mark 7:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 10 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.

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

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.

Mark 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

Mark 1:9-10 ESV / 9 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.

Hebrews 10:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Colossians 2:11-12 ESV / 8 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 4:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 8 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 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 10:47 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...

Hebrews 9:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

Hebrews 9:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Corinthians 1:17 ESV / 6 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.

1 Corinthians 1:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)

Romans 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 6:3-7 ESV / 6 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. For one who has died has been set free from sin.

Acts 19:1-7 ESV / 6 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 16:33 ESV / 6 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.

Acts 16:15 ESV / 6 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 16:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. 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 10:44 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Acts 9:18 ESV / 6 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;

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 6 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.

Acts 8:35-38 ESV / 6 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?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 2:37-38 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 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.

John 3:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

John 1:33 ESV / 6 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.’

Luke 23:43 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Luke 12:50 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!

Luke 7:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

Mark 7:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,

Mark 1:5 ESV / 6 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 28:19-20 ESV / 6 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.”

Matthew 3:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Matthew 3:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Leviticus 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.

Leviticus 16:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.

Leviticus 16:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.

Leviticus 15:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. ...

Exodus 29:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Revelation 22:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

2 John 1:9-11 ESV / 4 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. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

James 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 1:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 12:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Hebrews 8:8-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 4:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,

Ephesians 3:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.

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.

Galatians 1:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

1 Corinthians 15:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 6:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For one who has died has been set free from sin.

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

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.

Romans 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 6:3 ESV / 4 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?