1 Peter 2:9-11 But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God: once you had not found compassion, but now you have found compassion. ¹¹ Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul.