1 Peter 2:9-12

9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

10Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

11Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.

12Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.