1Pe 2:9 | NETfull | STEP | But you are a chosen race , a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people of his own , so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues ^{▼▼ This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5–6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20–21; and Mal 3:17.} of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.