but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,