1 Remind them to be subject to the rulers and to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work,
2 to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all courtesy to all people.
3 For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
4 But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared,
5 he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.