1 Peter 2:9-12

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⁹But 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) ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,^(G) but now you have received mercy.

A Call to Good Works

¹¹Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles^(H) to abstain^(I) from sinful^(J) desires that wage war against the soul.^(K) ¹²Conduct^(L) yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,^[h] so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.^(M)

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Footnotes

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

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