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1 Peter 2:9-11
New Testament for Everyone
1 Peter 2:9-11
New Testament for Everyone
9 But you are a “chosen race; a royal priesthood”; a holy nation; a people for God’s possession. Your purpose is to announce the virtuous deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. 10 Once you were “no people”; now you are “God’s people.” Once you had not received mercy; now you have received mercy.
Living in a pagan world
11 My beloved ones, I beg you—strangers and resident aliens as you are—to hold back from the fleshly desires that wage war against your true lives.
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