1 Peter 2:10-12

New Testament for Everyone

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. ¹² Keep up good conduct among the pagans, so that when they speak against you as evildoers they will observe your good deeds and praise God on the day of his royal arrival.