Titus 3:5

New King James Version

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Cross References

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?

Job 9:20

Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord; For with the Lord there is mercy, And with Him is abundant redemption.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For in Your sight no one living is righteous.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Psalm 62:12

Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy; For You render to each one according to his work.

Psalm 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

Isaiah 57:12

I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

Ezekiel 36:25

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

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

Matthew 3:11

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Luke 1:50

And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.

Luke 1:54

He has helped His servant Israel, In remembrance of His mercy,

Luke 1:72

To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant,

Luke 1:78

Through the tender mercy of our God, With which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;

Romans 11:14

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.

Romans 11:6

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 3:20

Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.

Romans 4:5

But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,

Romans 9:11

(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

Romans 9:16

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Romans 9:30

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

Ephesians 4:23

and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Ephesians 5:26

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

2 Timothy 1:9

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 6:6

if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 2:10

who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

1 Peter 3:21

There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,