Titus 3:2-6

Goodspeed(i) 2 to abuse nobody, to be peaceable and reasonable, showing perfect gentleness to everyone. 3 For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another. 4 But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, 5 he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit, 6 which he has poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,