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For we alsoonce were foolishourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to variouslusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hatingoneanother.
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He saved us, not on the basis of deedswhich we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the HolySpirit,
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This is a trustworthystatement; and concerningthesethings I want you to speakconfidently, so that those who have believedGod will be careful to engage in gooddeeds. Thesethings are good and profitable for men.