New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Peter 2:9-12

9But you are 1a chosen race, a royal 2priesthood, a 3holy nation, 4a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you 5out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 6for 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.

11 7Beloved, 8I urge you as 9aliens and strangers to abstain from 10fleshly lusts which wage 11war against the soul. 12 12Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they 13slander you as evildoers, they may 14because of your good deeds, as they observe them, 15glorify God 16in the day of 17visitation.

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Notes

1. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 43:20f; Deut 10:15 ↩
2. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 61:6; 66:21; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 1:6 ↩
3. 1 Peter 2:9 Ex 19:6; Deut 7:6 ↩
4. 1 Peter 2:9 Ex 19:5; Deut 4:20; 14:2; Titus 2:14 ↩
5. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 9:2; 42:16; Acts 26:18; 2 Cor 4:6 ↩
6. 1 Peter 2:10 Hos 1:10; 2:23; Rom 9:25; 10:19 ↩
7. 1 Peter 2:11 Heb 6:9; 1 Pet 4:12 ↩
8. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 12:1 ↩
9. 1 Peter 2:11 Lev 25:23; Ps 39:12; Eph 2:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 1:17 ↩
10. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 13:14; Gal 5:16, 24 ↩
11. 1 Peter 2:11 James 4:1 ↩
12. 1 Peter 2:12 2 Cor 8:21; Phil 2:15; Titus 2:8; 1 Pet 2:15; 3:16 ↩
13. 1 Peter 2:12 Acts 28:22 ↩
14. 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of ↩
15. 1 Peter 2:12 Matt 5:16; 9:8; John 13:31; 1 Pet 4:11, 16 ↩
16. 1 Peter 2:12 Is 10:3; Luke 19:44 ↩
17. 1 Peter 2:12 I.e. Christ’s coming again in judgment ↩

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