Titus 3:5

Tree of Life Version

not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy— He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh,

Cross References

Job 15:14

“What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Job 9:20

Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me. If I were guiltless, it will declare me perverse.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, wait for Adonai. For with Adonai there is lovingkindness, and with Him is full redemption,

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.

Psalm 51:10

Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.

Psalm 62:12

Once God has spoken, twice I have heard this: might belongs to God.

Psalm 86:15

But You, my Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, full of love and truth.

Psalm 86:5

For You, my Lord, are good, and ready to forgive and full of mercy to all who call upon You.

Isaiah 57:12

I will expose your ‘righteousness’, and your deeds—they will not profit you.

Ezekiel 36:25

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

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

Matthew 3:11

“As for me, I immerse you in water for repentance. But the One coming after me is mightier than I am; I am not worthy to carry His sandals. He will immerse you in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and fire.

Luke 1:50

And His mercy is from generation to generation to the ones who fear Him.

Luke 1:54

He has helped His servant Israel, remembering His mercy,

Luke 1:72

So He shows mercy to our fathers and remembers His holy covenant,

Luke 1:78

Through our God’s heart of mercy, the Sunrise from on high will come upon us,

Romans 11:14

if somehow I might provoke to jealousy my own flesh and blood and save some of them.

Romans 11:6

But if it is by grace, it is no longer by works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 3:20

For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.

Romans 3:28

For we consider a person to be set right apart from Torah observance.

Romans 4:5

But to the one who does not work, but trusts in Him who justifies the ungodly, his trust is credited as righteousness—

Romans 9:11

Yet before the sons were even born and had not done anything good or bad—so that God’s purpose and choice might stand not because of works but because of Him who calls—

Romans 9:16

So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who strives, but on God who shows mercy.

Romans 9:30

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness—that is, a righteousness of faith.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That is what some of you were—but you were washed, you were made holy, you were set right in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the Ruach of our God.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is set right not by deeds based on Torah, but rather through putting trust in Messiah Yeshua. So even we have put our trust in Messiah Yeshua, in order that we might be set right based on trust in Messiah and not by deeds based on Torah—because no human will be justified by deeds based on Torah.

Ephesians 2:4

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

Ephesians 4:23

be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Ephesians 5:26

to make her holy, having cleansed her by immersion in the word.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new self that is being renewed in knowledge, according to the image of the One who created him.

2 Timothy 1:9

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling— not because of our deeds but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Messiah Yeshua before time began,

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared—

Hebrews 10:22

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

Hebrews 4:16

Therefore let us draw near to the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help in time of need.

Hebrews 6:6

and then having fallen away—to renew again to repentance, since they are again crucifying Ben-Elohim for themselves and publicly disgracing Him.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah! In His great mercy He caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua from the dead.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were “not a people,” but now you are “God’s people.” You were shown “no mercy,” but now you have been shown “mercy.”

1 Peter 3:21

Corresponding to that, immersion now brings you to safety—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but a pledge to God of a good conscience—through the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua.