But you are a chosen race,[a][b](A) a royal priesthood,[c](B) a holy nation,[d](C) a people for his possession,[e](D) so that you may proclaim the praises[f][g](E) of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(F) 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,(G) but now you have received mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 Or generation, or nation
  2. 2:9 Dt 7:6; 10:15; Is 43:20 LXX
  3. 2:9 Ex 19:6; 23:22 LXX; Is 61:6
  4. 2:9 Ex 19:6; 23:22 LXX
  5. 2:9 Ex 19:5; 23:22 LXX; Dt 4:20; 7:6; Is 43:21 LXX
  6. 2:9 Or the mighty deeds
  7. 2:9 Is 42:12; 43:21

21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered(A) for you, leaving you an example,(B) that you should follow(C) in his steps. 22 He did not commit sin,(D) and no deceit(E) was found in his mouth;[a](F) 23 when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges(G) justly. 24 He himself bore our sins(H) in his body(I) on the tree;(J) so that, having died to sins,(K) we might live for righteousness.(L) By his wounds[b](M) you have been healed.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:22 Is 53:9
  2. 2:24 Is 53:5

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