1 Remind the people to be submitted to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
2 to slander no one, without fighting, gentle, showing every courtesy to all people.
3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared—
5 not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy— He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh,
6 whom He abundantly poured out on us through Messiah Yeshua our Savior,
7 so that being set right by His grace, we might become heirs with the confident hope of eternal life!