World English Bible
1 Peter 2:9
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:”
Verse in context — 1 Peter 2
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For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,
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and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;