10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,(A) but now you have received mercy.

A Call to Good Works

11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles(B) to abstain(C) from sinful(D) desires that wage war against the soul.(E) 12 Conduct(F) yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,[a] so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:12 Or among the nations, or among the pagans

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