1 Peter 2:10-11

Amplified Bible

¹⁰ Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.^(A)

¹¹ Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.