The Stain of Sin – Day 129

₃For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them. ₄But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour was revealed, ₅he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us. ₆God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ₇so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.