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^(g)For we also once were foolish ourselves, ^(h)disobedient, ⁽ⁱ⁾deceived, ^(j)enslaved to ^(k)various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in ^(l)malice and ^(m)envy, hateful, hating one another.

But when the ⁽ⁿ⁾kindness of ^(o)God our Savior and His love for mankind ^(p)appeared,

^(q)He saved us, ^(r)not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but ^(s)according to His mercy, by the ^(t)washing of regeneration and ^(u)renewing by the Holy Spirit,

^(v)whom He poured out upon us ^(w)richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

so that being justified by His grace we would be made ^(x)heirs ^[a]according to the hope of eternal life.