1 Peter 2:9-13 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
¹¹ Live as God’s ServantsDear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. ¹² Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.
¹³ For the Lord’s sake submit yourselves to every human authority: whether to the king as supreme,