Titus 3:5

New Living Translation

he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.

Cross References

Job 15:14

Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?

Job 25:4

How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure?

Job 9:20

Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is unfailing love. His redemption overflows.

Psalm 143:2

Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

Psalm 62:12

unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.

Isaiah 57:12

Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.

Ezekiel 36:25

“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols.

Micah 7:18

Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love.

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I’m not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 1:50

He shows mercy from generation to generation to all who fear him.

Luke 1:54

He has helped his servant Israel and remembered to be merciful.

Luke 1:72

He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant—

Luke 1:78

Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us,

Romans 11:14

for I want somehow to make the people of Israel jealous of what you Gentiles have, so I might save some of them.

Romans 11:6

And since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it really is—free and undeserved.

Romans 12:2

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Romans 3:20

For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are.

Romans 3:28

So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

Romans 4:5

But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.

Romans 9:11

But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes;

Romans 9:16

So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.

Romans 9:30

What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place.

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”

Ephesians 2:4

But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,

Ephesians 4:23

Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.

Ephesians 5:26

to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because you are so good or have such integrity that you are about to occupy their land. The Lord your God will drive these nations out ahead of you only because of their wickedness, and to fulfill the oath he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.

2 Timothy 1:9

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:4

But— When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love,

Hebrews 10:22

let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

Hebrews 4:16

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Hebrews 6:6

and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people back to repentance; by rejecting the Son of God, they themselves are nailing him to the cross once again and holding him up to public shame.

1 Peter 1:3

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation,

1 Peter 2:10

“Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.”

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is a picture of baptism, which now saves you, not by removing dirt from your body, but as a response to God from a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.