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But de you hymeis are a chosen eklektos race genos, a royal basileios priesthood hierateuma, a holy hagios nation ethnos, a people laos for eis his own possession peripoiēsis, so that hopōs you may declare exangellō the ho glorious deeds aretē of the ho one who called kaleō you hymeis out of ek darkness skotos into eis · ho his autos marvelous thaumastos light phōs. 10 At one time pote you hos were not ou a people laos, but de now nyn you are the people laos of God theos. You ho were shown no ou mercy eleeō, but de now nyn have received mercy eleeō.

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But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,[a] a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

10 “Once you had no identity as a people;
    now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
    now you have received God’s mercy.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 Greek a royal priesthood.
  2. 2:10 Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.