Titus 3:3-7

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

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

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

whom He richly poured out upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior,

so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.