3:3 For we,
too,
were once foolish,
disobedient,
misled,
enslaved to
various passions and desires,
spending our
lives in evil and envy,
hateful 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 works of righteousness that we have
done but on the basis of his mercy,
through the
washing of the
new birth and the
renewing of the
Holy Spirit,
6 whom he
poured out on us in
full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.
7 And so,
since we have been
justified by
his grace, we
become heirs with the
confident expectation of
eternal life.”
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