25 Bible Verses For Baby Dedications

Baby Dedication is a commitment service where parents promise to raise their child in a God honoring way.

And 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 2:38

And then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. | Hebrews 6:6

And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. | Luke 2:22

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. | Matthew 19:14

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. | Psalm 127:3

Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; He will also delight your soul. | Proverbs 29:17

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? | 2 Corinthians 6:14

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 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. | Romans 6:3-4

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. | Hebrews 10:26

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there. | 1 Samuel 1:27-28

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. | 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. | Ephesians 6:4

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. | 1 Corinthians 1:17

Grandchildren are the crown of old men, And the glory of sons is their fathers. | Proverbs 17:6

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. | Proverbs 31:6-7

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. | Revelation 14:12

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals. | Psalm 150:1-6

See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven. | Matthew 18:10

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. | Proverbs 22:6

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. | Genesis 1:26

Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. | Proverbs 22:6

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away. | Matthew 19:13-15

Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb. | Psalm 22:10

Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. | Proverbs 13:24

Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded. | Zechariah 11:17

Baby dedication is not an officially instituted ordinance of the church, there does not seem to be any conflict with Scripture as long as parents do not view it as assuring the salvation of the child.