1 Peter 2:10–12

10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,s but now you have received mercy.

A CALL TO GOOD WORKS

11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exilest to abstainu from sinfulv desires that wage war against the soul.w 12 Conductx yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,Q so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.y

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s	Mt 5:7 Mk 5:19 Lk 1:50
t	1 Pe 1:1
u	1 Ti 4:3
v	Ro 7:23 Php 3:3
w	Ga 5:17 Jas 4:1
x	2 Pe 3:11
Q	Or among the nations, or among the pagans
y	Is 10:3 Je 6:15 Je 8:12 Je 10:15 Lk 1:68 Lk 7:16 Lk 19:44