3 (A)For we also once were foolish ourselves, (B)disobedient, (C)deceived, (D)enslaved to (E)various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in (F)malice and (G)envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the (H)kindness of (I)God our Savior and His love for mankind (J)appeared, 5 (K)He saved us, (L)not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but (M)according to His mercy, by the (N)washing of regeneration and (O)renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 (P)whom He poured out upon us (Q)richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made (R)heirs (a)according to the hope of eternal life.

Footnotes:

a. Titus 3:7: ['Or ', of eternal life according to hope]

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