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3 For awe ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.  
4 But when athe kindness and the love of bGod our Savior toward man appeared,  
5 anot by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through bthe washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,  
6 awhom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,  
7 that having been justified by His grace awe should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.  
8 aThis is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.  

Avoid Dissension

9 But aavoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.  
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Titus 3:5

Titus 3:5 He saved us. Not by our righteousness, but by his mercy. The means chosen by his mercy to place us in the state of salvation are next spoken of. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Two elements enter into the saving; these are referred to in John as the birth of water and of the Spirit (John 3:5). God's spirit effects the renewal of the spirit of man by bringing him to faith and repentance through the preaching of the gospel; thus the renewal of the Holy Spirit is begun, and the gift of the Holy Spirit is promised as a sequence of baptism (Romans 6:1-8) shows that the sinner dies to sin, is buried by baptism, rises to a new life, and is a new creature. "Washing to regeneration" is literally, "bath of regeneration". All commentators of reputation refer this to baptism, such as Meyer, Olshausen, Lange, Plumptree, Schaff, Canon Cook, Wesley, etc. Regeneration is due to the Holy Spirit, but baptism is an outward act that God requires to complete the fact. The term "regeneration" only occurs here and Matthew 19:28.




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