Baptism

Question 1

Ezekiel 36:25-27

Answer 1

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Question 2

Matthew 8:13

Answer 2

And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; be it done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

(The faith of the centurion sufficed for the healing of the servant [we don’t know if the servant had faith]. Similarly, the faith of the parents suffices for Baptism of infants)

Question 3

Matthew 9:2,6

Answer 3

And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, “Take heart my son; your sins are forgiven.”…But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – he then said to the paralytic – “Rise, take up your bed and go home.”

Question 4

Matthew 28:29

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Mark 16:16

Answer 5

He who believes and is baptized will be saved

Question 6

Luke 18:15-16

Answer 6

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them;f or to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Question 7

John 3:5

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Acts 2:38-39

Answer 8

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 shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the lord our God calls to him.”

Question 9

Acts 16:15

Answer 9

And when she was baptized, with her household, she besought us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful tot he Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

Question 10

Acts 16:31,33

Answer 10

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”…And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family.

Question 11

Acts 22:16

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Romans 6:3-5

Answer 12

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, so that 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.

Question 13

1 Corinthians 1:16

Answer 13

I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized any one else.

Question 14

1 Corinthians 6:11

Answer 14

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Question 15

1 Corinthians 10:1-2

Answer 15

I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea

Question 16

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

Answer 16

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Question 17

Colossians 2:11-12

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Titus 3:5

Answer 18

he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,

Question 19

Hebrews 10:22

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

1 Peter 3:20-21

Answer 20

…when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved 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 clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.