Titus 3:3-5

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³After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

⁴In grace our Savior God appeared,
    to make his love for mankind clear.
⁵‘Twas not for deeds that we had done,
    but by his steadfast love^[a] alone,
he saved us through a second birth,
    renewed us by the Spirit’s^[b] work,