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Titus 3:3-5
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For We Also Were Once Foolish And Deceived, But God Saved Us By His Mercy And Grace

3 For we also were once foolish[a], disobedient, being deceived, being-slaves[b] to various desires and pleasures, spending life in malice and envy, detested[c], hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love-for-mankind of our Savior God appeared, 5 He saved us[d]— not by works which we did in [our] righteousness, but according-to[e] His mercy, through a washing[f] of [g] regeneration[h] and a renewing[i] of [j] the Holy Spirit,

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  1. Titus 3:3 Or, senseless, without-understanding.
  2. Titus 3:3 Or, serving-as-slaves.
  3. Titus 3:3 Or, loathed; or, detestable, loathsome; or, hateful.
  4. Titus 3:5 In the Greek word order, this comes after ‘mercy’. It has Paul’s emphasis.
  5. Titus 3:5 Or, based-on, by-way-of.
  6. Titus 3:5 Or, bath.
  7. Titus 3:5 That is, a spiritual washing consisting of, proceeding from; or, a water baptism leading to.
  8. Titus 3:5 Or, rebirth.
  9. Titus 3:5 Or, renewal.
  10. Titus 3:5 That is, proceeding from, performed by.
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Titus 3:3-5
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3 At one time(A) 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(B) and love of God our Savior(C) appeared,(D) 5 he saved us,(E) not because of righteous things we had done,(F) but because of his mercy.(G) He saved us through the washing(H) of rebirth and renewal(I) by the Holy Spirit,

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