1 Peter 3:21

American Standard Version (1901)

which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

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  • Mark 16:16 : 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
  • Gal 3:27 : 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Acts 2:38 : 38 And Peter [said] unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Acts 22:16 : 16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit.
  • Col 2:12 : 12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
  • Rom 6:3-6 : 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: 10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • 1 Cor 4:6 : 6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
  • Titus 3:5-7 : 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
  • Ezek 36:25-26 : 25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
  • Acts 8:36 : 36 And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
  • Acts 16:33 : 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
  • Heb 11:19 : 19 accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

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    15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:

    16 having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

    17 For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.

    18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

    19 in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,

    20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

  • Col 2:11-13
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    11 in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

    12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

    13 And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

  • Titus 3:4-6
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    4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,

    5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

    6 which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

  • Rom 6:3-5
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    3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

    5 For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;

  • 1 Pet 1:2-4
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    2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

    3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

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    21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

    22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

    23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

  • 22 let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

  • 16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

  • 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

  • 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  • 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

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    18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

    19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:

  • 38 And Peter [said] unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • 29 Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

  • 2 of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

  • 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

  • 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

  • 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • 3 And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

  • 22 who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

  • 3 And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John's baptism.

  • 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

  • 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • 7 By faith Noah, being warned [of God] concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

  • 16 And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway from the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him;

  • 9 receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls.

  • 6 This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

  • 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

  • 5 For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

  • 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  • 21 Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

  • 9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,

  • 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

  • 13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.