Titus 3:5

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Titus 3:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

6 This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

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Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

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How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Luke 10:27

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Luke 10:28

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

Luke 10:29

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 3:28

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 4:5

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 9:11

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

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So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 9:30

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 11:6

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

Galatians 2:16

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 3:16

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

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What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Galatians 3:18

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Galatians 3:19

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Galatians 3:20

A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

Galatians 3:21

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

Ephesians 2:4

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

Ephesians 2:8

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9

not by works, so that no one can boast.

2 Timothy 1:9

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

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But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

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and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

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For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.

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But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

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His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.

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He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,

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to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

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because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

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to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

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Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

John 3:3

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

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“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?”

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Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

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and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.