Top 30 Bible Verses about Adult Baptism

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

And Peter said to them, “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.”

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.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

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.

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John, but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized.

Baptism separates us from the past and gives us the possibility of a new beginning.

The journey of faith begins with a baptism of the heart.

In the waters of baptism, a believer finds the pathway to the promise.

Baptism is the embrace of grace that awakens the deepest self within us.

In the act of baptism, we are not only reborn but also recommitted to a life of discipleship.