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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.  
10 aReject a divisive man after the first and second1 admonition,  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Titus 3:5

Not by works - In this important passage the apostle presents us with a delightful view of our redemption. Herein we have, The cause of it; not our works or righteousness, but "the kindness and love of God our Saviour." The effects; which are, Justification; "being justified," pardoned and accepted through the alone merits of Christ, not from any desert in us, but according to his own mercy, "by his grace," his free, unmerited goodness. Sanctification, expressed by the laver of regeneration, (that is, baptism, the thing signified, as well as the outward sign,) and the renewal of the Holy Ghost; which purifies the soul, as water cleanses the body, and renews it in the whole image of God. The consummation of all; - that we might become heirs of eternal life, and live now in the joyful hope of it.


 
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