“But you [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light,”— 1 Peter 2:9 (LSV)
6For this reason, also, it is contained in the Writing: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on Him may not be put to shame”;
7to you, then, who are believing—the preciousness; but to the unbelieving, [the] stone that the builders disapproved of—this One has become the head of [the] corner,
8and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving—to which they were also set.
9But you [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light,
10who [were] once not a people, but [are] now the people of God; who had not found mercy, but now have found mercy.
11Beloved, I call on [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war against the soul,
12having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing [your] good works, they may glorify God in [the] day of inspection.