1 Put them in mind to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient to rule, to be ready to do every good work,
2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, [to be] mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.
3 For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
4 But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,
5 not on the principle of works which [have been done] in righteousness which *we* had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through [the] washing of regeneration and renewal of [the] Holy Spirit,
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