⁹But ye are ^ca chosen generation, ^da royal priesthood, ^ean holy nation, ^||^fa peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the ^||^gpraises of ^hhim who hath called you ⁱout of darkness into his marvellous light: ¹⁰^kWhich in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Read in Logos

1 Peter 2:9: 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.

Footnotes

c Deut. 10:15. See ch. 1:2.
d Ex. 19:6. Rev. 1:6. & 5:10. & 22:5. Comp. Ps. 45:16. So Isai. 61:6. & 66:21. ver. 5. Rev. 20:6.
eSo Deut. 26:19. Heb. 3:1.
||Or, a purchased people. So Eph. 1:14.
fSo Isai. 43:21. Acts 20:28. Eph. 1:14. See Tit. 2:14.
||Or, virtues. 2 Pet. 1:3.
g Isai. 42:12. & 43:21 in the Gk.
hver. 21. See Rom. 8:30.
iSee Acts 26:18.

Cross references

k Hos. 1:9, 10. & 2:23. Rom. 9:25, 26.

Public Domain

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

NLTNew Living Translation

But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

“Once you had no identity as a people;

now you are God’s people.

Once you received no mercy;

now you have received God’s mercy.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.