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1 Peter 2:9

American Standard Version

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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1 Peter 2:9 in other translations

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9 · World English Bible

1 Peter 2:9 in context

  1. 7For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
  2. 8and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
  3. 9But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  4. 10who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
  5. 11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;