Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 94

What is baptism?

Scripture

  1. Matthew 28:19 [1]
    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, (ESV)
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:23 [2]
    For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, (ESV)
  3. Galatians 3:27 [3]
    For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (ESV)
  4. Romans 6:3 [4]
    Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (ESV)
  5. Romans 6:4 [5]
    We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (ESV)