1 Peter 2:9-12 but you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people; that you should declare the perfections of him who has called you from darkness into his marvelous light:

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ but you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people; that you should declare the perfections of him who has called you from darkness into his marvelous light: ¹⁰ who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as sojourners and travelers, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. ¹² Have your behavior comely, among the Gentiles, that, whereas, they speak against you, as evil doers, having beheld your good works, they may glorify God, in the day of visitation.