1. Acts 2:38
(NKJV)
Repent, and each 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.
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2. Acts 22:16
(NKJV)
And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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3. Romans 6:4
(NIV)
We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
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4. Colossians 2:12
(NIV)
Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
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6. 1 Peter 3:21
(NIV)
and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also - not by removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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7. Mark 16:16
(NIV)
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
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Water baptism spiritually immerses you and identifies you with Jesus to show the transformation of the justified. Into His death means that immersion is specifically identifying with Christ ‘s death and resurrection. Immerse into water as death of old man and rise up from water as to the resurrection being freed from the control of the sin nature. Dead to sin and alive to God in the person of Christ Jesus.
8. Romans 6:3
(NIV)
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
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