Titus 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

By works

Washing

Renewing

Hebrews 6:6

General references

Bible References

By works

Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness,

for [although they] had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain,

But if by grace, [it is] no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law {no human being will be justified}.

Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, "and to descendants," as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

who saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus {before time began},

Washing

Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."

And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing [her] with the washing of water by the word;

And also, corresponding to [this], baptism now saves you, not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Renewing

Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit {within me}.

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and have put on the new [man] that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,

and having fallen away, to renew [them] again to repentance, [because they] have crucified again for themselves the Son of God and held him up to contempt.

General references

And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet with it.

And you will put the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water {in it}.

Then the priest shall put {some of} the remaining oil, which [is] on his palm, on the right ear's lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe, on [top of] the guilt offering's blood.

And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them.

I myself [am] Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!

Consequently therefore, {it does not depend on the} one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

[it is] not from works, so that no one can boast.

We love, because he first loved us.