Titus 3:5

God's Word

he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal.

Cross References

Job 15:14

Why should a mortal be considered faultless or someone born of a woman be considered righteous?

Job 25:4

How can a person be righteous to God? How can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Job 9:20

If I am righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. It would declare that I am corrupt even if I am a man of integrity.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, because with the Lord there is mercy and with him there is unlimited forgiveness.

Psalm 143:2

Do not take me to court for judgment, because there is no one alive who is righteous in your presence.

Psalm 51:10

Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a faithful spirit within me.

Psalm 62:12

Mercy belongs to you, O Lord. You reward a person based on what he has done.”

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Psalm 86:5

You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, full of mercy toward everyone who calls out to you.

Isaiah 57:12

I’ll tell you about your righteous ways and what you have done, but they won’t help you.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean  instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you? You forgive sin and overlook the rebellion of your faithful people. You will not be angry forever, because you would rather show mercy.

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water so that you will change the way you think and act. But the one who comes after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Luke 1:50

For those who fear him, his mercy lasts throughout every generation.

Luke 1:54

“He remembered to help his servant Israel forever.

Luke 1:72

He has shown his mercy to our ancestors and remembered his holy promise,

Luke 1:78

A new day will dawn on us from above because our God is loving and merciful.

Romans 11:14

Perhaps I can make my people jealous and save some of them.

Romans 11:6

If they were chosen by God’s kindness, they weren’t chosen because of anything they did. Otherwise, God’s kindness wouldn’t be kindness.

Romans 12:2

Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Romans 3:20

Not one person can have God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures. These laws show what sin is.

Romans 3:28

We conclude that a person has God’s approval by faith, not by his own efforts.

Romans 4:5

However, when people don’t work but believe God, the one who approves ungodly people, their faith is regarded as the basis of God’s approval.

Romans 9:11

Before the children had been born or had done anything good or bad, Rebekah was told that the older child would serve the younger one. This was said to Rebekah so that God’s plan would remain a matter of his choice,

Romans 9:16

Therefore, God’s choice does not depend on a person’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

Romans 9:30

So what can we say? We can say that non-Jewish people who were not trying to gain God’s approval won his approval, an approval based on faith.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Yet, we know that people don’t receive God’s approval by any effort to follow the laws in the Scriptures, but only by believing in Jesus Christ. So we also believed in Jesus Christ in order to receive God’s approval by faith in Christ and not by our own efforts. People won’t receive God’s approval by their own efforts.

Ephesians 2:4

But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us.

Ephesians 4:23

However, you were taught to have a new attitude.

Ephesians 5:26

He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It’s not because you’ve been living right or because you’re so honest that you’re entering to take possession of their land. It’s because these people are so wicked that the Lord your God is forcing them out of your way. It’s also because the Lord wants to confirm the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

and you’ve become a new person. This new person is continually renewed in knowledge to be like its Creator.

2 Timothy 1:9

God saved us and called us to be holy, not because of what we had done, but because of his own plan and kindness. Before the world began, God planned that Christ Jesus would show us God’s kindness.

Titus 3:4

However, when God our Savior made his kindness and love for humanity appear,

Hebrews 10:22

We have been sprinkled ⌞with his blood⌟ to free us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with clean water. So we must continue to come ⌞to him⌟ with a sincere heart and strong faith.

Hebrews 4:16

So we can go confidently to the throne of God’s kindness  to receive mercy and find kindness, which will help us at the right time.

Hebrews 6:6

Yet, they have deserted ⌞Christ⌟. They are crucifying the Son of God again and publicly disgracing him. Therefore, they cannot be led a second time to God.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not God’s people, but now you are. Once you were not shown mercy, but now you have been shown mercy.

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which is like that water, now saves you. Baptism doesn’t save by removing dirt from the body. Rather, baptism is a request to God for a clear conscience. It saves you through Jesus Christ, who came back from death to life.