1. Remind the people to be submitted to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,
2. to slander no one, without fighting, gentle, showing every courtesy to all people.
3. For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
4. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared—
5. not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy— He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh,
6. whom He abundantly poured out on us through Messiah Yeshua our Savior,