This note applies to several related themes regarding baptism and the household. Physical water baptism doesn’t save: Eze 36:25-27 Lk 23:39-43 (the thief wasn't baptized). Acts 8:16; 10:44-48; 11:15-16 Tit 3:5 1 Pe 3:21 Baptism has to do with spiritual cleansing: 1 Cor 12:13 Heb 10:19-22 Household Principle (God deals with families -- and this applies to Baptism as it did circumcision): Gen 9:9; 18:19; 19:12 Ex 12:3, 21, 24 Deut 29:29 2 Chr 17:3 Jer 3:14