¹⁴ Simeon has related how God first looked favorably on the gentiles, to take from among them a people for his name.

Salutation

1 Simeon^[a] Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

⁷ After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “My brothers,^[a] you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that I should be the one through whom the gentiles would hear the message of the good news and become believers.^{(A) 8} And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us,^{(B) 9} and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.^(C)

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,^[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.^(A)

⁵ through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the gentiles for the sake of his name,^(A)

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.^(A)