Original collection
BAPTISM/SAVES: Read 1 Cor 12:13; Mk 16:16; 1 Pet 3:21
Is FOR the “Remission of Sins” – Acts 2:38
Puts one INTO Christ – Rom 6:3-4; Gal 3:26-29
Repentance and “Remission of Sins” were preached in His name beginning at Jerusalem – Lk 24:47
Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves NOT having been baptized by him – Lk 7:30
John the Baptist preached a baptism of “Repentance for the remission of Sins” – Mk 1:4; Lk 3:3; Lk 7:30; He also went before the Lord to prepare His ways (Lk 1:76-77) and to give knowledge of salvation by the remission of their sins. He also came to the Jews “in the way of righteousness” Matt 21:32.
Born of Water and the Spirit – Jn 3:5
The Spirit moving through the Word – 2 Pet 1:21; Jn 14:26; 1 Cor 2:7-13
Washed – 1 Cor 6:11; Heb 10:22
Joined with the waters of baptism – Eph 5:25-27; Tit 3:5; 1 Pet 1:23
Of His own will He brought us forth by the Word of Truth that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures – Jas 1:18
Baptism Destroys the old man – Rom 6:3-4
Baptism Creates a new man – Rom 6:3-4
Baptism Washes away sin – Acts 22:16
Baptism Puts us into one body – 1 Cor 12:13
Baptism Allows one to be added to the church – Acts 2:40-47
Baptism Saves – 1 Pet 3:21
The Apostle Paul preached baptism for the remission of sins: Acts 16:13-15, Acts 16:31-34, Acts 18:8, Acts 19:1-5
Perhaps the following chart will help to put things in focus with reference to the connection between baptism and salvation, and the order of their occurrence, in the scriptural plan.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Mark 16:15-16; Colossians 2:12-13; 1 Peter 3:20-21
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
6 indexed verses · Showing 1–6. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Mark 16:15 (KJV)
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 (KJV)
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Colossians 2:12 (KJV)
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:13 (KJV)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
1 Peter 3:20 (KJV)
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1 Peter 3:21 (KJV)
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: