4  We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, ^bFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  33  For verily I say unto you, that after you have had sufficient time to build a house to me, wherein the ordinance of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and for which the same was instituted from before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead cannot be acceptable unto me;

  7  And now I would inquire what becometh of the ^asouls of men from this time of death to the time appointed for the resurrection?

  29  For a baptismal font there is not upon the earth, that they, my saints, may be ^bbaptized for those who are dead—