Bible Verses about โbaptism of babiesโ
The Bible contains 27 verses about baptism of babies across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โGo, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,โ
โfor by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,โ
โPeter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.โ
โBut Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these."โ
โHe said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.โ
โBecause Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;โ
โThis is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,โ
โHe who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.โ
โwho before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.โ
โin which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,โ
โwho is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.โ
โFor the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."โ
โThen those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.โ
โBut when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.โ
โBehold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.โ
โWe were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.โ
โHe took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.โ
โFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.โ
โMost certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."โ
โThey were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.โ
โOr don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?โ
โNow why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'โ
โWhen she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.โ
โHe commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.โ
โHe took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.โ
โAs they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"โ
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