1 Peter 2:10-12 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.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ 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 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul, ¹² Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.