1. Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
2. to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.
3. For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
4. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
5. He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,