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V e r s e b y V e r s e
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This Rock
Volume 3, Number 7
 July 1992 
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Does baptism regenerate? Just look at what the Bible says:
" 'Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.'...After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea where he spent some time with them baptizing" (John 3:5, 22).
"Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19).
"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'" (Acts 2:37-38).
"Now, why delay? Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name" (Acts 22:16).
"Now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God" (1 Cor. 6:11).
"He saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5).
"Let us approach him with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water" (Heb. 10:22).
"...in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now" (1 Pet. 3:21.
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