TSK · Titus 3:5

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Create for me a pure heart, O God! Renew a resolute spirit within me!

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

O Israel, hope in the LORD, for the LORD exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.

I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

He has done this to show mercy to our ancestors, and to remember his holy covenant–

The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.

But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.

You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.