1 Peter 2:10-12
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Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy,(A)
but now you have received mercy.
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy,(A)
but now you have received mercy.
A Call to Good Works
11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents(B) to abstain(C) from fleshly(D) desires that war against you.(a)(E)
12 Conduct(F) yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,(b) so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.(c)(G)
Footnotes:
a.
1 Peter 2:11: Or against the soul
b.
1 Peter 2:12: Or among the nations, or among the pagans
c.
1 Peter 2:12: The day when God intervenes in human history, either in grace or in judgment