3
AT ONE TIME WE TOO WERE FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT,
DECEIVED
AND ENSLAVED
BY
ALL KINDS OF PASSIONS AND PLEASURES.
WE
LIVED IN MALICE AND ENVY,
BEING
HATED AND HATING ONE ANOTHER.
4
BUT WHEN THE KINDNESS AND LOVE
OF
GOD OUR SAVIOR APPEARED,
5
HE SAVED US,
NOT
BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUS THINGS WE HAD DONE,
BUT
BECAUSE OF HIS MERCY.
HE
SAVED US
THOUGH
THE WASHING OF REBIRTH AND RENEWAL
BY
THE HOLY SPIRIT,
6
WHOM HE POURED OUT ON US GENEROUSLY
THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR,
7
SO THAT, HAVING BEEN JUSTIFIED BY HIS GRACE,
WE
MIGHT BECOME HEIRS
HAVING
THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
(Titus
3:3-7)
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