Baptism
56 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- Administered by Immersing the Whole Body of the Person In
- Administered to Households
- Administered to Individuals
- Administered to Only to Professing Believers
- Administered to Scriptures Supporting Infant Baptism
- Adopted by Christ
- Appointed an Ordinance of the Christian Church
- As Administered by John
- Christian
- Confession of Sin Necessary To
- Emblematic of the Influences of the Holy Spirit
- Faith Necessary To
- John's
- Regeneration, the Inward and Spiritual Grace of
- Remission of Sins, Signified By
- Repentance Necessary To
- Sanctioned by Christ's Submission to It
- There is but One
- To be Administered in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy
- Typified
- Unity of the Church Effected By
- Water, the Outward and Visible Sign In
Administered by Immersing the Whole Body of the Person In
- Matthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
- Acts 8:38–39 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. …
Administered to Households
- Acts 16:15 And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
- 1 Corinthians 1:16 Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that I do not remember if I baptized anyone else.
Administered to Individuals
Administered to Only to Professing Believers
- Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 3:6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
- Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
- Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
- Acts 8:37
- Acts 10:47–48 “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!” …
Administered to Scriptures Supporting Infant Baptism
- Proverbs 30:6 Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Adopted by Christ
- John 3:22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
- John 4:1–2 When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John …
Appointed an Ordinance of the Christian Church
- Matthew 28:19–20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, …
- Mark 16:15–16 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. …
As Administered by John
- Matthew 3:5–12 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan. …
- John 3:23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
- Acts 13:24 Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
- Acts 19:4 Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
Christian
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- Mark 16:16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
- John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
- John 3:22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
- John 4:1–2 When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John …
- Acts 1:5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
- Acts 1:22 beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
- Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 2:41 Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
- Acts 8:12–13 But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. …
- Acts 8:16 For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Acts 8:36–38 As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?” …
- Acts 9:18 At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
- Acts 10:46–48 For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said, …
- Acts 16:14–15 Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. …
- Acts 16:33 At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
- Acts 18:8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.
- Acts 18:25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit. He spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
- Acts 19:4–5 Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” …
- Acts 22:16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
- Romans 6:3–4 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? …
- 1 Corinthians 1:13–17 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul? …
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–2 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. …
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- 1 Corinthians 15:29 If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
- Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Ephesians 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
- Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Colossians 2:12 And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- Hebrews 6:2 instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
- 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 Peter 3:21 And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Confession of Sin Necessary To
- Matthew 3:6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
Emblematic of the Influences of the Holy Spirit
- Matthew 3:11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
- Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Faith Necessary To
John's
- Matthew 3:5–8 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan. …
- Matthew 3:11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
- Matthew 3:13–16 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. …
- Matthew 21:25 What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
- Mark 1:4–5 John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. …
- Mark 1:8–10 I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” …
- Mark 11:30 John’s baptism — was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”
- Luke 3:7–8 Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? …
- Luke 3:12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
- Luke 3:21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,
- Luke 7:29–30 All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John. …
- Luke 20:4 John’s baptism — was it from heaven, or from men?”
- John 1:25–26 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” …
- John 1:28 All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
- John 1:31 I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
- John 1:33 I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
- John 3:23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
- John 10:40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.
- Acts 1:5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
- Acts 1:22 beginning from John’s baptism until the day Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
- Acts 10:37 You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:
- Acts 11:16 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
- Acts 19:3–4 “Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied. …
Regeneration, the Inward and Spiritual Grace of
- John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
- John 3:5–6 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. …
- Romans 6:3–4 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? …
- Romans 6:11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Remission of Sins, Signified By
- Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 22:16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
Repentance Necessary To
- Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Sanctioned by Christ's Submission to It
- Matthew 3:13–15 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. …
- Luke 3:21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,
There is but One
- Ephesians 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
To be Administered in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Typified
- 1 Corinthians 10:2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 1 Peter 3:20–21 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. …
Unity of the Church Effected By
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Galatians 3:27–28 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. …
Water, the Outward and Visible Sign In
- Acts 8:36 As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
- Acts 10:47 “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”
Related topics
Baptism of the Holy SpiritBaptism with the Holy SpiritBaptism with the Holy Spirit is Through Christ
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.