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As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves in family and social life, as well as in relation to a society that makes it...

The Chosen People (2:9–10)* In the third subsection Peter returns to his readers and proceeds to contrast them with the people who disbelieve the gospel. His concern here is to describe them in language, drawn from the Old Testament, that was originally used to depict Israel as the chosen people of God. He uses five phrases, which are taken from two main passages in the Greek version of the Old Testament. In Exodus 19:6 we read: “You will be my special people out of all the nations; for the whole
1 Peter 2:9–10
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