Titus 3:4-7

AUV(i) 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior toward mankind appeared, 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].