1 Peter 2:9
But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
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7 Unto you therefore which believe precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10 Which in time past not a people, but now the people of Elohim: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;