Titus 3:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

Cross References

Job 15:14

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

Job 25:4

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Job 9:20

Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.

Psalm 143:2

Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

Psalm 51:10

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

Psalm 62:12

And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psalm 86:5

You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Isaiah 57:12

I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

Ezekiel 36:25

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.

Matthew 3:11

Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

Luke 1:50

His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.

Luke 1:54

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,

Luke 1:72

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

Luke 1:78

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

Romans 11:14

If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

Romans 11:6

But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28

For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

Romans 4:5

But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.

Romans 9:11

Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

Romans 9:16

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

Romans 9:30

What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

Ephesians 4:23

And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

Ephesians 5:26

So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

2 Timothy 1:9

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Titus 3:4

But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

Hebrews 10:22

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Hebrews 4:16

Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

Hebrews 6:6

And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 2:10

In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;