Titus 3:3-5

21st Century King James Version

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

⁴ But after the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

⁵ He saved us not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration, and by the renewing of the Holy Ghost,