Titus 3:5

New Century Version

he saved us because of his mercy. It was not because of good deeds we did to be right with him. He saved us through the washing that made us new people through the Holy Spirit.

Cross References

Job 15:14

“How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?

Job 25:4

So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Job 9:20

Even if I were right, my own mouth would say I was wrong; if I were innocent, my mouth would say I was guilty.

Psalm 130:7

People of Israel, put your hope in the Lord because he is loving and able to save.

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a pure heart, God, and make my spirit right again.

Psalm 62:12

The Lord is loving. You reward people for what they have done.

Psalm 86:15

But, Lord, you are a God who shows mercy and is kind. You don’t become angry quickly. You have great love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

Lord, you are kind and forgiving and have great love for those who call to you.

Isaiah 57:12

I will tell about your ‘goodness’ and what you do, and those things will do you no good.

Ezekiel 36:25

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.

Micah 7:18

There is no God like you. You forgive those who are guilty of sin; you don’t look at the sins of your people who are left alive. You will not stay angry forever, because you enjoy being kind.

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water to show that your hearts and lives have changed. But there is one coming after me who is greater than I am, whose sandals I am not good enough to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Luke 1:50

God will show his mercy forever and ever to those who worship and serve him.

Luke 1:54

He has helped his servant, the people of Israel, remembering to show them mercy

Luke 1:72

He said he would give mercy to our ancestors and that he would remember his holy promise.

Luke 1:78

With the loving mercy of our God, a new day from heaven will dawn upon us.

Romans 11:14

I hope I can make my own people jealous and, in that way, help some of them to be saved.

Romans 11:6

And if he chose them by grace, it is not for the things they have done. If they could be made God’s people by what they did, God’s gift of grace would not really be a gift.

Romans 12:2

Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 3:28

A person is made right with God through faith, not through obeying the law.

Romans 4:5

But people cannot do any work that will make them right with God. So they must trust in him, who makes even evil people right in his sight. Then God accepts their faith, and that makes them right with him.

Romans 9:11

But before the two boys were born, God told Rebekah, “The older will serve the younger.” This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything he did.

Romans 9:16

So God will choose the one to whom he decides to show mercy; his choice does not depend on what people want or try to do.

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? Those who are not Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God, but they were made right with God because of their faith.

1 Corinthians 6:11

In the past, some of you were like that, but you were washed clean. You were made holy, and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

Ephesians 2:4

But God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much.

Ephesians 4:23

But you were taught to be made new in your hearts,

Ephesians 5:26

to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are becoming like the One who made you. This new life brings you the true knowledge of God.

2 Timothy 1:9

saved us and made us his holy people. That was not because of anything we did ourselves but because of God’s purpose and grace. That grace was given to us through Christ Jesus before time began,

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was shown,

Hebrews 10:22

let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us, then, feel very sure that we can come before God’s throne where there is grace. There we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it.

Hebrews 6:6

But they fell away from Christ. It is impossible to bring them back to a changed life again, because they are nailing the Son of God to a cross again and are shaming him in front of others.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

1 Peter 2:10

At one time you were not a people, but now you are God’s people. In the past you had never received mercy, but now you have received God’s mercy.

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism that now saves you—not the washing of dirt from the body, but the promise made to God from a good conscience. And this is because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead.