Titus 3:3-5

Riverside(i) 3 For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, 5 "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit