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 of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10. You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11. Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
12. and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
13. Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme