Titus 3:5-7 He saved us, not because of any good deeds we ourselves had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of new birth Note: This refers to our immersion in water and the renewing work of the Holy Spirit,

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ He saved us, not because of any good deeds we ourselves had done, but because of His mercy. [He saved us] through the washing of new birth [Note: This refers to our immersion in water] and the renewing [work] of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom God poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. ⁷ [This was] so that, being made right with God by His unearned favor, we could have the hope of [possessing our] inheritance of never ending life [in heaven].