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10 In the past you were not a special people,
    but now you are God’s people.
Once you had not received mercy,
    but now God has given you his mercy.[a]

Live for God

11 Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. So I beg you to keep your lives free from the evil things you want to do, those desires that fight against your true selves. 12 People who don’t believe are living all around you. They may say that you are doing wrong. So live such good lives that they will see the good you do, and they will give glory to God on the day he comes.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:10 In the past … his mercy See Hos. 2:23.

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