1Pe 2:9-10 | ESV | STEP | But you are a chosen race , a royal priesthood , a holy nation , a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light .

1 Peter 2:9-10

9 But you are ^aa chosen race, ^ba royal ^cpriesthood, ^da holy nation, ^ea people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^fout of darkness into ^ghis marvelous light. 10 ^hOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.