26 Best Baptism Bible Verses to Honor the Sacrament

“After they came to believe Philip, who preached the good news about God’s kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.”

“He directed that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited Peter to stay for several days.”

“After they listened to Paul, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

“You were buried with him through baptism and raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.”

“All were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”

“You are one body and one spirit, just as God also called you in one hope. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, who is over all, through all, and in all.”

“All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”

“Even I didn’t recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’”

“Everyone who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice because they had been baptized by John.”

“I have a baptism I must experience. How I am distressed until it’s completed!”

“He announced, ‘One stronger than I am is coming after me. I’m not even worthy to bend over and loosen the strap of his sandals. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’

Jesus is baptized and tempted.

About that time, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and John baptized him in the Jordan River.”

“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.”

“And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.”

“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.”

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

“Jesus answered, ‘Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.’”

“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”

"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.”

“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.’”

“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.”