(A)[a] For we ourselves also were in times past unwise, disobedient, deceived, serving the lusts and divers pleasures, living in maliciousness and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But when that bountifulness and that love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

(B)Not by the works of [b]righteousness, which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of the new birth, and the renewing of the [c]holy Ghost,

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 3:3 He confirmeth again the former exhortation, by propounding the free benefit of our regeneration, the pledge whereof is our Baptism.
  2. Titus 3:5 Word for word, of works which are done in righteousness: and this place doth fully refute the doctrine of merits.
  3. Titus 3:5 Which the virtue of the holy Ghost worketh.

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