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What does the Bible say about the trinity?

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The Bible teaches that there is one true God who eternally exists as three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in deity, glory, and majesty. Jesus commands baptism into the one name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Matthew 28:19, while 2 Corinthians 13:14 joins them in a blessing to the church. The Father speaks, the Son is baptized, and the Spirit descends in Matthew 3:16-17. Scripture also affirms Christ's full deity, as Jesus says, "I and the Father are one" in John 10:30, and John 1:14 declares that the eternal Word became flesh.

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  • Matthew 28:19 6 votes

    Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

  • John 10:30 4 votes

    I and the Father are one.”

  • 2 Corinthians 13:14 4 votes

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

  • Matthew 3:16-17 3 votes

    Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

  • 1 Corinthians 8:6 3 votes

    yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

  • John 14:26 2 votes

    But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

  • 1 Peter 1:2 2 votes

    according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

  • Genesis 1:26 2 votes

    God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

  • John 1:14 2 votes

    The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

  • Isaiah 48:16 2 votes

    “Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

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