1 Peter 3:21

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And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you– not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God– through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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  • Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
  • Gal 3:27 : 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • Acts 2:38 : 38 Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized 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 : 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’
  • 1 Cor 12:13 : 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
  • Col 2:12 : 12 Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
  • Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
  • Eph 5:26 : 26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
  • Rom 6:3-6 : 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. 6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  • Rom 10:9-9 : 9 because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.
  • 1 Cor 4:6 : 6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.
  • Titus 3:5-7 : 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
  • Rom 5:14 : 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam(who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.
  • Ezek 36:25-26 : 25 I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
  • Zech 13:1 : 1 The Refinement of Judah“In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  • Acts 8:36 : 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”
  • Acts 16:33 : 33 At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.
  • Heb 11:19 : 19 and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

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    15But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

    16Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.

    17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

    18Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

    19In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

    20after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

  • Col 2:11-13
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    11In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.

    12Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

    13And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

  • Titus 3:4-6
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    4But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

    5he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

    6whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

  • Rom 6:3-5
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    3Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

    5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

  • 1 Pet 1:2-4
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    2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!

    3New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

  • 1 Pet 1:21-23
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    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • Heb 10:22
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    22let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

  • Acts 22:16
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    16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

  • Eph 5:26
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    26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

  • Heb 9:14
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    14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Pet 1:18-19
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    18You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,

    19but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

  • Acts 2:38
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    38Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 15:29
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    29Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are they baptized for them?

  • Heb 6:2
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    2teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

  • Gal 3:27
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    27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

  • John 3:22
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    22Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

  • 1 John 3:3
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    3And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

  • 1 Pet 3:22
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    22who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

  • Acts 19:3
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    3So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

  • Heb 11:7
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    7By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

  • Matt 3:16
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    16After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

  • 1 Pet 1:9
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    9because you are attaining the goal of your faith– the salvation of your souls.

  • 1 John 5:6
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    6Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood– not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

  • Titus 2:14
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    14He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

  • Acts 1:5
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    5For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

  • Eph 4:5
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    5one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  • Luke 3:21
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    21The Baptism of Jesus Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,

  • Heb 9:9
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    9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

  • Mark 16:16
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    16The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

  • Matt 3:13
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    13The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.