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1 Peter 2:9-12

1 Peter 2:9-12 CSB

But you are a chosen race,   , , a royal priesthood,   , a holy nation,   , a people for his possession,   , so that you may proclaim the praises   , , of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,  but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles  to abstain  from sinful  desires that wage war against the soul.  Conduct  yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,  so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.