1Pe 2:10 | NETfull | 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 ^{▼▼ 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, ^{▼▼ The quotations in v. 10 are from Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.} but now you have received mercy.