Good Works, Salvation by God's Mercy, and Warnings Against Division
Titus 3:1-11
1Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, and to be ready for every good work.2To speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, to be gentle, showing all gentleness toward all people.3For we ourselves were once also foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detested, hating one another.4But when the kindness and the benevolence of God our Savior appeared,5not by works that we did in righteousness, but according to his own mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,6whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,7so that, having been justified by that one's grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.8The word is faithful, and concerning these things I want you to insist confidently, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are good and profitable for people.9But foolish controversies and genealogies and quarrels and fights about the law avoid, for they are unprofitable and futile.10A schismatic person, after one and a second admonition, refuse.11knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.