Bible Verses about โbaptizing childrenโ
The Bible contains 36 verses about baptizing children 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
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
โFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โteaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.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
โJesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.โ
โJesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!โ
โHe who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.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
โFor sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.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
โFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.โ
โFor you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.โ
โDon't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?โ
โNeither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.โ
โThus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โOr don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?โ
โTherefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.โ
โMay it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?โ
โknowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.โ
โBut now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.โ
โWhat shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?โ
โFor he who has died has been freed from sin.โ
โWhat then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!โ
โBeing made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.โ
โI speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.โ
โFor if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;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
โBut if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;โ
โBut thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.โ
โknowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!โ
โFor the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.โ
โFor when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.โ
โWhat fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.โ
โHe took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.โ
โI baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."โ
