1 Peter 2:9-12
Read 1 Peter 2 in full →9But you are aa chosen family, a royal bpriesthood, a choly nation, da people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you eout of darkness into His marvelous light; 10afor you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11aBeloved, bI urge you as csojourners and exiles to abstain from dfleshly lusts which wage ewar against the soul, 12aby keeping your conduct excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing which they bslander you as evildoers, they may 1because of your good works, as they observe them, cglorify God din the day of 2visitation.