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Bookmark or Share- What Is Baptism? - JW.ORGBaptism shows that you have abandoned your former way of life and have begun a new life doing God’s will. Matthew 28:19, 20. You need to be baptized to serve Jehovah. Psalm 40:8. Baptism shows others that you want to serve God. Matthew 3:16. You must be completely immersed, or dipped, under water, as Jesus was.
- What Is Baptism? - JW.ORGBaptism with fire. John the Baptist said to his listeners: “That one [Jesus] will baptize you with holy spirit and with fire. His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean up his threshing floor completely and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.”
- Are You Ready to Get Baptized? | Watchtower Study - JW.ORGBaptism is public; it takes place in front of others, usually at an assembly or a convention. When you get baptized, you show others that you have already dedicated yourself to Jehovah. b So your baptism lets others know that you love Jehovah your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength and that you are determined to serve him forever.
- Baptism—A Requirement for Christians | Study - JW.ORG3 In discussing baptism, the apostle Peter referred to Noah’s constructing of the ark: “Baptism, which corresponds to this, is also now saving you.” (Read 1 Peter 3:20, 21.) The ark was a physical structure that provided undeniable visible evidence that Noah was devoted to the doing of God’s will.
- Baptism - JW.ORGWater Baptism of Jesus’ Followers. John’s baptism was due to be replaced by the baptism commanded by Jesus: “Make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit.” This was the only water baptism having God’s approval from Pentecost, 33 C.E., forward. Some years ...
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