Tit 3:3-5, Jam 1:18, 1Pe 2:9-10 | ESV | STEP | For we ourselves were once foolish , disobedient , led astray , slaves to various passions and pleasures , passing our days in malice and envy , hated by others and hating one another .

Titus 3:3-5

3 For ^awe ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when ^bthe goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, ^cnot because of works done by us in righteousness, but ^daccording to his own mercy, by ^ethe washing of regeneration and ^frenewal of the Holy Spirit,

James 1:18

18 ^gOf his own will he ^hbrought us forth by the word of truth, ⁱthat we should be a kind of ^jfirstfruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 2:9-10

9 But you are ^ka chosen race, ^la royal ^mpriesthood, ⁿa holy nation, ^oa people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^pout of darkness into ^qhis marvelous light. 10 ^rOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.