1 Peter 2:9-11

Complete Jewish Bible

⁹ But you are a chosen people,^[a] the King’s cohanim,^[b] a holy nation,^[c] a people for God to possess!^[d] Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; before, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.^[e]

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents^[f] not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you;