^{9 Ref} But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

^{10 Ref} who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

^{11 Ref} Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;