Bible Verses about โinfant baptismโ
The Bible contains 18 verses about infant baptism 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
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 answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!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
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 in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.โ
โThen those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.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
โhaving been 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.โ
โin whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;โ
โFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.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 took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.โ
โ(I also baptized the household of Stephanas; besides them, I don't know whether I baptized any other.)โ
