1 Peter 2:9-11

Darby Translation

⁹ But *ye* [are] a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

¹⁰ who once [were] not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.

¹¹ Beloved, I exhort [you], as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;