But by the grace of God I am that thing that I am; and his grace was not void in me. For I travailed more plenteously than all they; but not I, but the grace of God with me.
that delivered us, and called with his holy calling, not after our works, but by his purpose and grace, that is given [to us] in Christ Jesus before worldly times;
not of works of rightwiseness that we did, but by his mercy he made us safe, by [the] washing, [or baptism], of again-begetting, and again-newing of the Holy Ghost,