Titus 3:1-7 - Conduct Toward All People

1 Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work, 2 they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men. 3 For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

4 But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; 5 and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit 6 which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, 7 that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."