^22 [a]What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great ^(A)patience objects of wrath ^(B)prepared for destruction? ²³ And He did so to make known ^(C)the riches of His glory upon ^(D)objects of mercy, which He ^(E)prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ namely us, whom He also ^(F)called, ^(G)not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles, ²⁵ as He also says in Hosea:

⁹ But you are ^(A)a chosen people, a royal ^(B)priesthood, a ^(C)holy nation, ^(D)a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you ^(E)out of darkness into His marvelous light; ^10 (F)for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

^11 (G)Beloved, ^(H)I urge you as ^(I)foreigners and strangers to abstain from ^(J)fleshly lusts, which wage ^(K)war against the soul.