1 Peter 2:10-12 At one time you Gentiles were not a chosen people, but now you are God’s special people. Once you had not received His mercy, but now you have received it.

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ At one time you [Gentiles] were not a [chosen] people, but now you are God’s [special] people. Once you had not received [His] mercy, but now you have received it. ¹¹ My dearly loved ones, I urge you, as a people who are foreigners and strangers [in this world], do not give in to sinful desires, which wage war against the soul. ¹² You should live such good lives before [unconverted] Gentiles, so that even though they accuse you of being evildoers, by seeing your good deeds, they will [be led to] honor God [for you] on the day He visits us again [i.e., to bring judgment].