New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Peter 2:10
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Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
KJV text & permissions
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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who once [were] not a people, but now [are] [the] people of God—those not having received mercy, but now having received mercy.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Peter 2
8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
12 Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
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