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1 Admonish them to be subject to princes and to magistrates, to obey their orders, and to exert their virtue and loyalty upon all occasions. 2 to speak evil of no man, to avoid contention, to be moderate and entirely inoffensive to all men. 3 for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred. 4 but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind, 5 he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit, Titus 3:1-5, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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