1 Peter 2:10-12

New American Standard Bible

^10 (A)for 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 (B)Beloved, ^(C)I urge you as ^(D)foreigners and strangers to abstain from ^(E)fleshly lusts, which wage ^(F)war against the soul. ^12 (G)Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they ^(H)slander you as evildoers, they may ^[a]because of your good deeds, as they observe them, ^(I)glorify God ^(J)on the day of ^[b]visitation.