1 Peter 2:9-11 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

KJV_Cambridge⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; ⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: