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THAT EVERY BELIEVER IS
TO BE WATER BAPTIZED
BY IMMERSION AS A PROFESSION
OF HAVING BEEN BORN AGAIN
“…REPENT, AND LET EVERY ONE OF YOU
BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS…”
Acts 2:38
"GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY
CREATURE. HE WHO BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED…”
Mark 16:15-16
“THEN CRISPUS…BELIEVED ON THE LORD WITH ALL HIS
HOUSEHOLD. AND MANY OF THE CORINTHIANS,
HEARING, BELIEVED AND WERE BAPTIZED.”
Acts 18:8
“BUT WHEN THEY BELIEVED PHILIP AS HE PREACHED
THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
AND THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WERE BAPTIZED.”
Acts 8:12-13
“DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT AS MANY OF US AS WERE
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST JESUS WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS
DEATH? THEREFORE WE WERE BURIED WITH HIM THROUGH
BAPTISM INTO DEATH, THAT JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED
FROM THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER,
EVEN SO WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.”
Rom 6:3-4
“THERE IS ALSO AN ANTITYPE WHICH NOW SAVES US --
BAPTISM(NOT THE REMOVAL OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH,
BUT THE ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD),
THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST…”
1 Peter 3:21-22