1 Peter 3:21
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21 (A)There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (B)(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, (C)but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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Mark 16:16
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16 (A)He who believes and is baptized will be saved; (B)but he who does not believe will be condemned.
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Acts 2:38
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38 Then Peter said to them, (A)“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the [a]remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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- Acts 2:38 forgiveness
Ezekiel 36:25-26
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25 (A)Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you (B)from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a (C)new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
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Galatians 3:27
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27 For (A)as many of you as were baptized into Christ (B)have put on Christ.
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Acts 22:16
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16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, (A)and wash away your sins, (B)calling on the name of the Lord.’
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Ephesians 5:26
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26 that He might [a]sanctify and cleanse her (A)with the washing of water (B)by the word,
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- Ephesians 5:26 set it apart
1 Peter 1:3
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A Heavenly Inheritance
3 (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who (B)according to His abundant mercy (C)has begotten us again to a living hope (D)through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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Romans 10:9-10
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9 that (A)if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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1 Corinthians 12:13
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13 For (A)by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—(B)whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and (C)have all been made to drink [a]into one Spirit.
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- 1 Corinthians 12:13 NU omits into
Colossians 2:12
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12 (A)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through (B)faith in the working of God, (C)who raised Him from the dead.
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Matthew 28:19
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19 (A)Go [a]therefore and (B)make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
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- Matthew 28:19 M omits therefore
Hebrews 9:24
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24 For (A)Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are [a]copies of (B)the true, but into heaven itself, now (C)to appear in the presence of God for us;
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- Hebrews 9:24 representations
1 Timothy 6:12
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12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
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2 Corinthians 7:1
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The Corinthians’ Repentance
7 Therefore,(A) having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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1 Corinthians 4:6
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Fools for Christ’s Sake
6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be [a]puffed up on behalf of one against the other.
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- 1 Corinthians 4:6 arrogant
Romans 6:3-6
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3 Or do you not know that (A)as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus (B)were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were (C)buried with Him through baptism into death, that (D)just as Christ was raised from the dead by (E)the glory of the Father, (F)even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 (G)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that (H)our old man was crucified with Him, that (I)the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
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- Romans 6:6 rendered inoperative
Titus 3:5-7
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5 (A)not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through (B)the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 (C)whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace (D)we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Romans 5:14
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14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, (A)who is a type of Him who was to come.
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Acts 16:33
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33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.
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Acts 8:36
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36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. (A)What hinders me from being baptized?”
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Zechariah 13:1
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Idolatry Cut Off
13 “In that (A)day (B)a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for (C)uncleanness.
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Hebrews 11:19
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19 concluding that God (A)was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
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2 Corinthians 1:12
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Paul’s Sincerity
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in [a]simplicity and (A)godly sincerity, (B)not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:12 The opposite of duplicity
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