Acts 10:47
10:47 “No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did,
can he?”
Ezekiel 36:25
36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water
and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
John 3:5
3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:23
3:23 John
was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim,
because water was plentiful there, and people were coming
to him
and being baptized.
Titus 3:5-6
3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us in full measure
through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Titus 3:1
Conduct Toward Those Outside the Church
3:1 Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work.
Titus 1:6
1:6 An elder must be blameless,
the husband of one wife,
with faithful children
who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.