Titus 3:4-7

Only by the grace and mercy of a loving Father are we saved. It is not because of our good works but His righteousness that salvation is offered to all men and if we let Him the agape heart of God, the Holy Spirit, will cleanse and transform us into the image of His Son. No longer slaves to the bondages of this world we become free to be sons of the living God through Jesus Christ.


Since Paul has been exhorting Titus to emphasize good works in his ministry with the Cretans, he wants to make it clear that such works have no value in saving a person. Rather, it is solely on the basis of God’s mercy that we are delivered from the penalty of our sin. The continual process of Christian living is enabled by the Holy Spirit, resulting in growth in character and good works. God justifies believers so that they might become coheirs with Jesus Christ in His coming reign.

Titus 3:4-7

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.