1Pe 2:10 | NET2full | STEP | You once were not a people , but now you are God’s people . You were shown no mercy , but now you have received mercy .

‏ 1 Peter 2:10

10 You ^{▼▼tn Grk “who,” continuing the description of the readers from vs. 9. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.} once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, ^{▼▼sn The quotations in v. 10 are from Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.} but now you have received mercy.