Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth which leads to godliness,

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,

and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior,

he saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but because of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,