### 69. Q. How does holy baptism remind and assure you that Christ’s one sacrifice on the cross benefits you personally?

**A**. In this way: Christ instituted this outward washing<sup>1</sup> and with it promised that, as surely as water washes away the dirt from the body, so certainly his blood and his Spirit wash away my soul’s impurity, that is, all my sins.<sup>2</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Acts 2:38](/get-passage/Acts+2:38)
<sup>2</sup> [Matt. 3:11](/get-passage/Matthew+3:11); [Rom. 6:3-10](/get-passage/Romans+6:3-10); [1 Pet. 3:21](/get-passage/1+Peter+3:21)